On 5/28/04 2:06 PM, "John C. Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/28/04 1:03 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If I type my email in Word and insert a proper URL there, and send it out as >> HTML mail through Entourage, it all works. But that's a horrible, kludgey >> way to send email. >> >> Perhaps you think it's unimportant, but the lack of that basic feature has >> caused me problems this week. I'm sending out political fund raising emails >> to some friends and associates, and want to include a hyperlinke to the >> donation page that specifically ties into my KerryCore account... But it's a >> big, long awkward URL. Good usability would let me just put "Click here to >> donate," but I can't. And that's frustrating. >> >> When something is so frustrating that I walk into the other room and use >> Outlook (gag, spit) on my Windows computer to send the email, that's a big >> deal to me. Because I hate using Outlook. It's not nearly as good a program >> as Entourage -- but its a more functional program when it comes to authoring >> email. > > Nonsense. There's no RFC requirement for href links in email, and some > damned good reasons not to allow them. (web bugs, etc.) I'm sorry... RFC? > I know a few places that are rejecting emails with complex URL links for the > reason that you cannot tell what that URL really links to without viewing > the raw message source or clicking the link. As well, there are services, > like TinyURL that are designed to work around overly long URLS and they do > so quite well. If the only reason you can't use Microsoft Entourage is > because it can't do complex links well then you're going to be pissed at > many mail clients on the Mac. I do use Microsoft Entourage. I find it indispensable for managing my email (custom views, dozens of categories, now the project center, etc). But this inability is annoying as hell. People keep proposing effort-intensive workarounds, when there's Of course, this isn't the most egregious flaw in Entourage X, from my perspective. The inability to set a per-email reply to: function, when even pathetic little Mail.app can, is really bad, and keeps us from using Entourage on some computers in my office. I haven't had the need for such a function recently, but still can't seem to find a non-accountwide setting for it anywhere in Entourage 2004. > > As well, what's so kludgy about using Word? You get far better formatting > options, and if you have Microsoft Entourage 2004, you have Word too. I looked into it, but I've found that a font I consider readable in Word is massively too large in Entourage -- for some reason 12 pt Trebuchet MS in Word turns into a huge font when sent over as HTML into Entourage. I can write in 10 pt Trebuchet, but I find that a strain to work with in my preferred view for Word (page view at 100%). So again, it's standing on my head to do what Outlook for Windows users do with one menu selection in their otherwise-inferior PIM software. Kirk -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
