speaking of kmail ...

Fri Sep 8 19:56:22 UTC 2006

On Friday 08 September 2006 10:22, Rich Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 07 September 2006 20:41, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Rich Johnson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 19:30, Brad Becker wrote:
> > >> Is it possible to compose an email where a certain word is a hyperlink
> > >> for some embedded url?
> > >>
> > >> For instance, if I type:  'for more info click here', where the word
> > >> 'here', when clicked, directs you
> > >> to the embedded url link.
> > >
> > > As far as I know, KMail only supports plain text emails,
> >
> > No, KMail supports HTML - but badly :-)
> > --
> > derek
>
> All you can do is read HTML mail according to the KDE Kontact/Kmail page.
> However, how would other email clients read an email if you did:
>
> <html>
> <head><title>html email is bad</title></head>
> <body style="background: black 
url(http://www.kontact.org/pics/shots/mail.png) no-repeat">
> <p style="text-align: center; font: bold blue 3em Arial, Helvetica,
> sans-serif">DOES THIS WORK?</p>
> </body>
> </html>
Kmail presented that URL as an active hyperlink, though the sample message was 
displayed as plain text. I suspect Netscape/Mozilla mail and others would do 
the same.