[LINK] E-mail question

[Kim Holburn]

This is a "feature" of Apple Mail.  Apple mmail wraps all plain text  
at about 75 characters and adds a space even to URLs.  There is a  
standard for this which I've forgotten the mname of right now.  Lots  
of other clients don't handle this correctly.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=url+space+apple+mail>

If you want to publish 80+ character URLs use thunderbird.  The angle  
brackets do help though.  Most email clients honour the angle brackets.


On 2007/Jun/09, at 3:06 AM, Ivan Trundle wrote:

>
> On 09/06/2007, at 10:41 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>
>> When I get a URL split over two lines, I click the edit button and  
>> remove the line break. it works then. I know that isn't addressing  
>> your point about the <> strategy. I think it does work. Where it  
>> gets changed is when a distributor like Yahoogroups narrows the  
>> line length to less than the unwrapped screen width upon which the  
>> message was created.
>
> I probably should have explained myself better, and in any event,  
> my e-ail client doesn't hard wrap or break text, so I'm only  
> guessing the outcome.
>
> What I'm looking for is a fail-safe option to publish 80-plus  
> character URLs in plain text e-mails.
>
> We're having some healthy debate about the best strategy, but I'm  
> not interested in the 'right' approach - only one that works  
> without the recipient having to either edit or retype. The problem  
> that we are experiencing in my workplace at the moment is that some  
> mail client software splits long URLs, and IGNORES the wrapped  
> component, resulting in unfollowable links.
>
> We are receiving (a few) complaints from recipients who use a wide  
> variety of mail clients, from web-based to OS-based. It's not  
> always easy to ask them what they were using when it failed, either.
>
> I'm merely trying to resolve this easily and simply (and no,  
> offering TinyURL et al is *not* a solution, alas) - I had thought  
> that the < and > worked, and if I could find validation of this, I  
> could bludgeon a recalcitrant programmer with this information.
>
> iT
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