[X Newbies] Links in mail

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 18:29 Canada/Eastern, Steven Rogers 
wrote:

> Yeah, it worked fine because the "target=" part of the HTML is just 
> text .  Mail is making the http://blah part into a link automatically. 
>  Look under View=>Show=>Raw Source

I must be dense, because I don't see your point. Your message is plain 
text -- so there's not much to be seen. Mail parses the text and 
recognizes http://blah as a link -- which is the way it's supposed to 
work. The target="_blank"> part is ignored, not because it is just 
text, but because it is separated by a blank space from the preceding 
http statement, so Mail does not consider it to be part of the http 
statement. Since your message header states:

Content-Type: text/plain

instead of

Content-Type: text/html

there's no reason for Mail to interpret HTML tags as a such, and 
they're ignored. Which seems to me the way it's supposed to work.

f