Hyperlink Manager

[Kryon]

Hi!

i tried to fit in a Link to my Website into the Mail.
i used the hyperlink Manager for it.
when i recognized that the link is not active (with a testmail), i tried different types of adresses. i tried http://www.xxx.eu or www.xxx.eu or just xxx.eu
all the different types are not being links to the website in the testmail.

When i tried to use the link, i saw a note when the cursor was on the link :
x-msg://27/www.xxx.eu
(when i write xxx i mean that i used a functually Website Adress)

On any Links where the same type of note. As i said before, i tried it in 4 different types of writing.

So, what did i do wrong?

Regards

Don

[stanbusk]

Only 'http://www.xxx.eu' is correct. A URL should include the protocol. In this case 'http://'. This is an example how it looks like: hyperlink editor.

[bSeen]

Tried every permutation of http scheme for a hyperlink and could not get it to show an active link although a previous mailout worked fine (after endless tweaking). Finally had to use previous mailout message and paste over the text except for the working link and re-save as a new file. Although the link looked exactly the same <<address>>, it now works.

Any ideas why that's happening? Now on 5.3, was the same on the previous version too.

[stanbusk]

Not sure what your problem is but if the URL is properly entered it should always work. What URL do you have problems with?

[bSeen]

MY problem looks like <<www.learnphotoshop.net>> in the preview and was entered in the hyperlink manager as http://www.learnphotoshop.net. It looks like it should work and I use hyperlinks all the time in Mail and other programs. Oddly, hyperlinks in my signature in preview are "hot" as in blue type and when clicked take me to a page right there in preview. This problem of mine is vexing since I've approached it every way I can think of.

The actual website address shouldn't make any difference. Even if it was a bogus made-up name, the link should still be available. Do I need to use quotations or other html code, please?

[stanbusk]

Hyperlink editor asks for 2 values, 'Name' and 'URL'. What do you use for each one? Also, what format are you using for your message, styled text?

[bSeen]

Using Styled Text format, I'm successfully linking to a site and 1 e-mail address but not another e-mail address. Using mailto: at the beginning of the e-mail address it doesn't work on 1 of my e-mail addresses. I've re-edited many times thinking I might have made a typo or included a space. I've even pasted the address from an e-mail delivered in mail. It's my own address so it's not like I don't know it. It doesn't appear in Preview correctly but with the greater and lessers <<name@domain.com>> and it appears the same in a test mail-out. It's at the end of a message, before the signature. Maybe I need to add a line break or something else unknown?

[stanbusk]

Can you tell me what that address is? What do you use for Name and URL? That way I could try to reproduce here.

[bSeen]

eMail: xxxx xxxxxx (is the text)
mailto:xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com (is the url)

Would you mind deleting this post after you've tested it?

Thanx

[stanbusk]

I have tried your data here, in styled text format, with the link tag as the only text in the message, it works fine. Does it for you?

[bSeen]

Never got it to work for my address. Using the same method, it worked for someone elses address just fine in a paragraph above. I finally just went around the problem by saying that readers could respond to the message (but I really wanted the link to be to a different address, the one I sent you). If I ever figure out what the weirdness is, I'll post it.

Thanx,