I no longer have outlook easily available and most of the messages I did in a similar format were Outlook RTF or rich text which used syntax highlighting, however:
You might also want to try something closer to UNC format: href="file://H:\path\subpath\file" with backslashes, and possibly omitting the "file://" portion as well. Finally, you may want to do the full UNC format with the machine/service name, since it's possible for people to map different drives to different letters (don't know how your organization is set up, of course): href="\\FILESERVER\docs\help\foo.doc" --harlan > From: "Palit, Nilanjan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Boston.pm] A non-perl html question - any ideas? > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:07:23 -0800 > > Apologies for posting this in this forum - but I really need to resolve this and > don't know where to post this question - any suggestions or pointers to any other > question/message boards would be greatly appreciated. > > I'm sending an html formatted email (Perl generated) which is being read in > Outlook. It contains a link to a Windows network drive in the format: > > <a href="file://NetworkSharedDriveName/path/path1/.../file.gif">Image file</a> > > (To stress: please note that this is a file on a shared drive - not a http link) > > However, Outlook fails to recognize that as a valid URL. If I type the exact same > link into IE (the "file://..." piece), it recognizes it & pulls up the image file. > > What gives? How can I get Outlook to recognize a file on a shared drive as a > hyperlinked pointer? > > [Outlook has no problems recognizing straightforward http://... links within the > same message.] > > > Thanks, > > -Nilanjan > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
