How do I configure settings so that EVERY incoming HTML email displays ALL links as clickable links automatically?
For example, when I email myself something (let's say a link to a product), when I view the email on my phone, the link is clickable. When I view the email on my laptop (Thunderbird/gmail), the link text is dead/plain text. When I send the emails, they are originating from my phone (samsung galaxy S9+/gmail). I DO NOT WANT TO TOGGLE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN MESSAGE BODY VIEWS FOR EACH EMAIL I READ. THAT IS ANNOYING AND NOTHING BUT A PAIN. It's 2019 now. Where are the automatic settings for this? I don't understand why each and every link just doesn't outgo and income as clickable. Nobody types links. Everyone copy/pastes, or "shares". I don't get it. It doesn't make any sense. I want HTML view so that all the other stuff (graphics, etc) shows up in the emails as well. I'm convinced the settings I want don't exist because they make too much sense. Lol
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You appear to be complaining that Thunderbird can not correct the failure of your phone app to make clickable links. Perhaps get another phone app.
Auto detection of links is actually not a good idea. for example this forum does it.so badly and most auto detection processes do it just as poorly.
Ilungisiwe ngu Matt
When you send a link from a phone, make sure the link is embedded in text like this, not typed or pasted into a message like this: http://www.link.net This is a shortcoming of mobile mail apps - they can't format in true plain text. Embedded links sent this way are clickable when received in TB, unembedded links usually are not.
I guess I still don't get it. Like, when I'm on a website, I hit share link/page...then hit "via email" when the list of buttons pop up...so that it shares through email. There's no "typing" anything. So I'm not sure I understand how I'm supposed to "correct" or "modify" anything that's being sent in the message, aside from tweaking whatever email settings are available. And I guess another big thing I don't understand is why links aren't clickable in html view but are clickable in plain text view. (Lol I'll probably never understand that one, it'll just never make sense to my brain Lol)(Lol my brain logic would tell me that links should be clickable in html view, but not in plain text view Lol)
I mean, if I'm stuck with having to switch back-and-forth between message body views with each email I'm reading, than so be it I suppose. I'm just making the choice to be crabby about it to amplify my disdain for it. LOL
You're on W10, so you can do this experiment: set up an account in the Mail app and send a message to an account that's set up in TB. In the message body enter http://www.cnn.com You will find the link is not clickable unless View/Message Body as is set to Plain Text. Look at the message source (Ctrl+U) to see all the extra formatting that precludes the link not being clickable when View/Message Body as is Original HTML. So, if you want Original HTML to display clickable links, send them as embedded links, especially if they are sent from mobile mail apps.
Why that is necessary is beyond the scope of a user forum, but you are free to develop your own workarounds.
sfhowes... Ironically...that's sort of what I just decided to try/do... I launched & configured the basic "Mail" program that comes with windows 10... I reshared the same link to myself the same way again... Boom...the link is clickable right off the bat, no tweaking anything...plus, all the html graphical formatting of emails is still there, etc. I've tested out a few other things as well. Lol so I'm probably just gonna shift over to using windows 10 mail on my laptop.
I do appreciate everyone who has commented!
just be aware that very "automated" creation of links is how phishers get through firewalls and anti virus programs. it is not a link so it does not get the same attention at all from the anti virus programs.