The trouble is the company email doesn't contain any link... not even text that could be a malformed link.
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
The trouble is the company email doesn't contain any link... not even
text that could be a malformed link.
Frequently people and systems sending mail compose it using a rich text editor. They put in a link like this:
blah blah <a href="http:....">click here</a> blah blah
That comes through in the HTML version, but if you look in the plain
text version there's no link because the tags have been stripped out.
It still says 'click here' but there's nothing to click on in plain text.
Did you check the HTML version?
The other thing that can happen is if they allow you to specify you want plain text emails, they might do that and send you just the plain text version without the HTML version with the link.
Or they messed up, but that would likely affect everyone equally.
Theo
Both my mail apps, Pluto on RISC OS and Thunderbird MS-Win side have been configured to accept text only emails.
On 13 May, Dave wrote in message
<592c1dd264dave@triffid.co.uk>:
Both my mail apps, Pluto on RISC OS and Thunderbird MS-Win side
have been configured to accept text only emails.
That ship sailed about twenty years ago...
On 13 May, Dave wrote in message
<592c1dd264dave@triffid.co.uk>:
Both my mail apps, Pluto on RISC OS and Thunderbird MS-Win side have been
configured to accept text only emails.
That ship sailed about twenty years ago...
Still has it's uses if you don't want to be tracked. Obviously there are other ways to prevent being tracked too.
Both my mail apps, Pluto on RISC OS and Thunderbird MS-Win side have been configured to accept text only emails.
I took the Pluto mail HTML attachment in the mail to the Win side and
double clicked it, it displayed in Firefox with the clickable link
available.
Late coming to this thread, but...
On 13/05/2021 20:20, Dave wrote:
Both my mail apps, Pluto on RISC OS and Thunderbird MS-Win side have
been configured to accept text only emails.
I took the Pluto mail HTML attachment in the mail to the Win side and double clicked it, it displayed in Firefox with the clickable link available.
When you say you have Thunderbird configured to "accept" text only
emails, do you mean configured to *display* emails as text only?
If so, it's worth remembering you can change how the currently open
message is displayed from the View menu (View -> Display body as)
without faffing around saving out a HTML attachment and moving it around.
(My default is plain text, but I change it for the occasional message
for similar reasons to the problem you encountered)
The only downside is...
As 99 percent of my email comes via Pluto, and if I find some that are causing problems I don't really have any choice but to manually take the stuff Windows side.
In article <593954d1d4dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk>
wrote:
The only downside is... As 99 percent of my email comes via Pluto, and
if I find some that are causing problems I don't really have any
choice but to manually take the stuff Windows side.
The HTML attachment you see in !Pluto can be dropped on whatever Browser
you usually use on the RO side and viewed there.
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