For the Mozilla-heads here, there is a wonderful extension which I use
in both Thunderbird and Firefox. Highlight and right-click (context menu
editable) text and it will take you to the URL (or parts thereof)
you have highlighted. Uses wildcards and will attempt to "repair" broken
links:
http://email.about.com/od/thunderbirdextensions/gr/url_link.htm
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Peter van Houten
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming
<angu...@geoapps.com> wrote:
On 30 Sep 2009 at 11:17, Stu Sjouwerman wrote:
Understood. But that has one drawback, which is that you do not
check emails for known bad URLs which are usually phishing
attempts and use social engineering. For savvy people like us, no
worries, but for consumers and/or clueless end-users, this is an
extra layer or protection that can prevent bad infections.
Good point. I see so few messages like this due to my spam filters I
tend to forget most l-users are phishable.
Pegasus Mail (the mail client I use and install at client shops if
possible) has a feature I've not seen in other mail clients: in an
HTML message if the displayed URL is different from the underlying
URL (e.g. the message shows "https://secure.yourbanksname.com/"; but
the actual link is something like "http://bogus.server.in.ru/";) the
cursor changes from the default finger-hand (indicating a clickable
link) to a red circle-with-a-slash indicating that you should not
click this link. Nothing very difficult to code, and it's a nice
safety feature that goes along with other Pegasus Mail safety
features like no-scripting-in-email and
don't-download-remote-images.
For "Click Here" links, it displays the underlying URL in the status
bar and tooltip -- not as bullet- and idiot-proof, but still much
better than OL or OE.
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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
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