On Jan 31, 2004, at 5:35 PM, David Dudine wrote: > >From reading the posts here and responses on one Mac users' website, > and from a fruitful conversation with the technician at my internet > provider, I have concluded that there is nothing wrong with the > hyperlinks that I am sending. ?The problem must be with the email > programs of certain recipients. ?But, I'm not positive. > > I am sending this message in HTML, and copying a formatted article and > a hyperlink. ?If any of you find that the hyperlink is not active or > the message and article are in plain text, would you please let me > know? ?If more than a few replies appear on the digest, I will begin > to think that I do have a problem ?Thanks.
I understand what is going on now. I thought you were asking about creating hyperlinks in a Mac OS X mailer. You're actually asking about Outlook Express in Mac OS 9. I apologize. Although I haven't used Outlook Express in years, here's the situation as I understand it. OE can't create a hyperlink all by itself, and it apparently doesn't preserve hyperlinks in material pasted from elsewhere. To see this, let's look at the raw source of your message. As with most mailers dealing with HTML mail, it does the friendly thing and includes two copies of the message--one in HTML and the other in plain text for those mail readers unable to handle HTML. You can see this from the message > Content-type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="MS_Mac_OE_3158415312_1238574_MIME_Part" After this, comes the first part, which is the plain text alternative. > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not > understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --MS_Mac_OE_3158415312_1238574_MIME_Part > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Then, comes the HTML part repeating all the content with formatting. > --MS_Mac_OE_3158415312_1238574_MIME_Part > Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable This part does not retain the hyperlinks of the original article. This is clear from the following snippet. > <FONT > COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/opinion/ > 31SAT1.h= > tml<BR> > This just changes the color and underlines the link text in order to make it look like a real link. In order to be an HTML hyperlink, it would have to look something like <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/opinion/31SAT1.html";>http:// www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/opinion/31SAT1.html</a> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
