[thelist] Email addresses inside emails

Sarah Sweeney mr.sanders at designshift.com
Thu Jun 3 07:39:53 CDT 2004


>> One of my clients sends out newsletters with email addresses for
>> unsubscribing. He presently has them as mailto:x at y.com and we would 
>> like to
>> know if it will be 'clickable' for more email clients if we use simply
>> x at y.com
> 
> 
> Fwiw -- both are highlighted in Mozilla Mail (latest testing build) in 
> plain text mode.
> 
> ymmv with other mail clients. I know Outlook 2003 does the same (in 
> plain text mode).

Does anyone know a source for email client stats and/or information on 
features of the most popular email clients? For example, which clients 
will make a url or email address clickable in plain text, which will not 
wrap a url if it's enclosed in < >, etc.

-- 
Sarah Sweeney
Web Developer & Programmer
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