[X4U] Why do some images not go through on Apple Mail?

Jens Selvig lstnmt at bresnan.net
Sat Apr 26 06:51:21 PDT 2008


Your URL is broken on my version of mail. (Version 3.2 (919/919.2) )

Jens

On Apr 26, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Tim Collier wrote:

> See below:  Well, I just contradicted myself.  I stated that a long  
> URL
> spanning 2 lines would not be properly clickalbe...well, now that I'm
> reading it in Entourage, the long dummy URL that I put in is  
> complete.  I
> guess I'd have to look at it in Mail to see if it is the same  
> there.  Just
> wanted some feedback as to what others see?
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 4/26/08 6:53 AM, "Tim Collier" <tim_collier at bellsouth.net> I was so
> excited on 4/26/08 6:53 AM, when I received this message from Tim  
> Collier
> that I had to take an extra xanax.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/25/08 6:55 PM, "Ed Gould" <edgould1948 at comcast.net> I was so  
>> excited on
>> 4/25/08 6:55 PM, when I received this message from Ed Gould that I  
>> had to
>> take an extra xanax.
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Linda wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/25/08 1:16 PM, John Dach wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The link worked.  Here is one to try that I typed in
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.MLCE.net  and here is the link you sent that I typed in
>>>>> http://www.cnn.com
>>>>>
>>>>> bet they did not work for you.  They are NOT colored like a link.
>>>>
>>>> They both work as clickable hyperlinks.
>>>>
>>>> They are links when the mail is received, not when you're composing
>>>> a mail.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I am guessing that *PART* part of  the problem is that listservs
>>> behave differently . I have run into this on other listservs and  
>>> gave
>>> up trying to figure out how they handle URL's some work perfectly  
>>> and
>>> others well lets say they do not.
>>>
>>> I do *NOT* know anything about which listserv works and which do  
>>> not.
>>> I think this is partly a listmom issue and an RFC issue and good  
>>> luck
>>> pointing the finger as I have been told (some) RFC's are not being
>>> followed by listserv code.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>> One thing that I've seen regarding clickable URL's is this:  if the  
>> URL is
>> complete on one line like http://www.apple.com/ it will work fine.   
>> But some
>> people post these mile long URL's and they get split so the first  
>> part is on
>> one line and the second on the line below.  Only way that I've  
>> found, if I
>> really want to see it, is to copy and paste it into the browser.   
>> This
>> happens to me in Mail and Entourage 2008 for instance (this is not  
>> a real
>> URL so don't click it(by the way, as soon as I started typing what  
>> Entourage
>> thought to be a URL, it moved the http etc to the line below..talk  
>> about
>> smart))
>> http://www.webpage.com/userpages/iamlinda/personalstuff/morepersonalstuff/pi
>> ctures/photo5?xml/showme_the_picture/ 
>> pictureofmeatmy15thbirthday.jpg won't
>> work even if you put a < at the beginning and a > at the end.  Only  
>> the
>> first part of the URL will show as being clickable
>> --
>> Tim Collier
>> MacBook 2.2 gig 2 gig RAM
>> http://www.timcolliermiami.com/
>>
>>
>>
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