Vista - Hyperlinks not underlined and not clickable

I've just started trial use of Windows Live Mail before converting my mail
system from OE. The first thing I noticed was that a hyperlink I included
in an HTML message did not get underlined and was not clickable. This was
true however I viewed it, including the copy I sent to myself. But if I
click Reply or Forward on that copy, it is then underlined, and when
received is also clickable. Why isn't the original link underlined and
clickable? I can't see any option that affects this, and anyway I thought
the default behaviour was to underline it.
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Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

It is normal that the link Not to be highlight and Not clickable while
composing the message.

This is a bit different from OE. In OE while composing the links are
highlighted but are still not clickable.

In either case, after sending the message, the copy in the Sent Items
folder and any received version should be clickable.

Note the if you look at the message while still in the Outbox, it is
still in a being composed mode and so not clickable.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Richard J." <rjnews0811@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Richard J." <rjnews0811@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eesB35jYJHA.2084@xxxxxx
Just because you see the text for a "link" in an HTML document
does not mean that it is a usable link. View the source of the document
to see the exact coding you are getting. E.g. press Ctrl-F3 or Ctrl-F2.


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Further tests show that the problem occurs when I send a mail from WLM with
format set to "Rich Text (HTML)". When received by WLM, the links in the
mail are not clickable (in neither the preview pane nor in a separate
window). When the same mail is received by OE they *are* clickable. When
the same mail is sent from OE, the links are clickable whether read in OE or
WLM.

I've tried this with links of the form www.domain.net and also
http://domain.net with the same results in both cases.

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Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)


"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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So have you looked at the source code (Ctrl+F2) to see what is different
between a clickable link and a non-clickable link?

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Richard J." <rjnews0811@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%2306$XZwYJHA.4424@xxxxxx

Yes, with the following results:

OE composing: When composing in HTML format, OE recognises http://.... or
www.... and creates the HTML <a href=" ... etc. around it.
OE reading: When a "naked" link is received, whether in a plain-text mail or
in HTML without the <a> tags, it displays it as a link (blue, underlined)
and makes it clickable.

WLM composing: When composing in HTML format, it doesn't do anything
special with a link that you type, so it gets included in the message as a
"naked" link.
WLM reading: When a "naked" link is received in a plain-text mail, WLM
recognises it as a link, displays it blue and underlined, and makes it
clickable. When a "naked" link is received in an HTML mail, it is displayed
as ordinary text.

Is this WLM behaviour experienced by other people?

Is this a deliberate change in WLM, a bug in WLM, or is there a setting that
I can change to persuade WLM to act more intelligently?

By the way, the encoding for all the test messages in WLM is Western
European (Windows). I've tried other encoding settings without seeing any
difference in behaviour.
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Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)



"Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Which version of WLMail are you using (Help menu > About...)? There
are several bugs in the production release's handling of HTML, some
of which seem to have been fixed in the current beta releases, but
new ones may have been introduced.
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Noel

"Richard J." <rjnews0811@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm using Version 2008 (Build 12.0.1606). From what you say, it doesn't
sound as if there's a single stable Microsoft mail client that works on both
XP and Vista. Jeez, is this meant to be progress?
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Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)


"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rather depends on what you mean by 'stable' - my WLMail, same
version as yours, has been rock solid for over a year. It has its
bugs, which I've learnt to live with until they're eradicated, but
the app is as stable as any I have installed and more stable than
most.

To check whether a link works or not, I always do a quick Ctrl-S to
save a draft. This calls the HTML rendering engine into play, and
with the 'All drafts' Quick view visible, all it takes is a click or
two there to open the draft I just saved. I click the link to see
what happens.
--
Noel

"Richard J." <rjnews0811@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK, I'll persevere. Thanks for your help.
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Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)


"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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