Links sent in emails do not work.

[Art Alexion]

Most mailers do a good job of detecting urls in plain text and  
presenting them as hyperlinks. They sometimes get confused when the  
URL is part of an html message but not formatted as link.

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Art Alexion
Sent unsigned from an iPod. That's the reason for the top posting as  
well.

On Sep 27, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Steven Vollom  
<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I am on so much I appologize, but this has been an unresolved problem
> for a long time.
>
> When I receive an email that has a link included, and I am told to  
> click
> on the link, the link never functions for me.  Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 3.5.9
> Thunderbird 2.0.0.1.6 (20080724) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; i686; en-US;
> rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092313 Firefox/3.0.2.
>
> To go to the link location, I have been copying the link location,
> opening the browser, highlighting the Address line and pasting the
> address.
>
> Years ago, when I was using XP, I could just click on a link sent in  
> an
> email and it would open the browser to the correct address.  Is this
> something I can have happen with my present system.  TIA for help
>
> Steven
>
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