I am a lonely Mac in a PC company and when I send an e-mail with an address to hyperlink to, it does not send as hyperlink, only as text. I am on 10.2.8, using Mail 1.2.5. Is there any third party sofware or anything I can do to relieve this problem? People are getting frustrated and taking it out on my Mac. It's the little things, ya know! Thanks
I have tried plain and rich and neither work. One of the Mac haters (pain in the a**) in my office sent me this info from some sight. Is this true? "Apple's email is limited to RTF which is useless for the rest of the world. If you need to send pics to friends you needHTML and apple doesnt support it." I don't think it can be because I have not hade any problem sending or receiving pics or anything else for that matter. Just this hyperlink thing.
The HTML tag for a hyperlink is a href= closed with /a. <a href=hyperlink>hyperlink name</a> send this as plain text. Don't know if this MacOSX hints piece would help.
In reply to:<hr /> Whether or not a URL appears as a hyperlink is determined by the recipient's email program, not by Mail. Most email clients, when they see a fully-specified URL (e.g., http://www.apple.com/ rather than just www.apple.com), turn it into a hyperlink automatically. Mail does this too, but the URL does not appear as a link when you're composing the message because Mail has no way of knowing whether the recipient's email client will interpret it as a link. But if you send a URL to yourself and check it with Mail, you'll see that it becomes a clickable link.
If Mail were able to compose messages in HTML format, as many email clients can, you would be able to create links that work like the ones in Office, where the text is different from the underlying URL. But for most purposes, clickable URLs should be sufficient.
In reply to:<hr /> If you need to send pics to friends you needHTML
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That's patently untrue. You can simply attach the pictures and they work fine.
<rant>You can tell your pal that rich email is for idiots anyway. Anybody with half a brain cell uses plain text because: 1) It's unnecessary to have formatting in email. 2) It takes extra transfer time to transmit. 3) It takes longer to load on mail clients that understand it. 4) It doesn't show up in many email clients (pine, etc.).
Any email client that's any good will parse email and make URLs into clickable links. Outlook Express 6 does. Even if it doesn't, it takes about two seconds to copy that address and paste it into a browser. If your pal can't put up with a couple seconds of work because his email client is inept, tell him to get a better mail client or buy you a copy of Entourage. </rant>
I was thinking of when you make a link form a word like ....look "HERE"...... 