Tip 190: Hyperlinks Not Hyperlinked?

When you paste URLs into HTML formatted email the url is treated as plain text, not a clickable hyperlink, until you press the spacebar (or begin typing at the end of the url) or press Enter.

Published October 7, 2004. Last updated on May 16, 2011.

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