[thelist] Links in email

[Chris Blessing]

Janet-

I'm positive you won't be able to accomplish this unless you embed the HTML
in the document (email) itself, which means you'd have to have an
HTML-compatible email client on the other end to receive said document for
it to display properly.

hth!

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> Ok I give up and need some help. A colleague asked me how to
> write a link in the body of an email message so that it
> *displays* like a link in an HTML document (i.e., with a
> clickable "phrase" for the link instead of the long/ugly URL
> displayed). I've sent myself test messages in Outlook in the
> three available formats under Options... Mail Format (choices are
> "Outlook Rich Text Format," "HTML," and "plain text") They look like this:
>
> <a href="http://www.desmoinesmetro.com">Linking phrase here</a>
>
> but all that's displaying in the received email is the code, no
> matter which format I am in. Can someone just explain how this
> might work and any caveats that come with it?
>
> Thanks...
> Janet
> (Now if I hit "send" and my message appears on thelist with a
> nice little link up there, I'm gonna scream...)