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* Is there an unambiguous syntax for URLs in a mail item?Kenny McCormack
`- Re: Is there an unambiguous syntax for URLs in a mail item?Marco Moock

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Subject: Is there an unambiguous syntax for URLs in a mail item?
From: Kenny McCormack
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Organization: The official candy of the new Millennium
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 11:47 UTC
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From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Is there an unambiguous syntax for URLs in a mail item?
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 11:47:33 -0000 (UTC)
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I have a situation where I am creating an email that gets piped to
sendmail for delivery. Everything works fine, except:

The email contains a (long-ish) URL and I find that when it reaches it
destination, sometimes the URL is rendered as a link (thus clickable) and
sometimes not. It depends on which client the user uses to access the
email. With Thunderbird, it works correctly, but when accessed via an
email web interface, the URL just displays as text (thus not clickable).

I seem to remember that there is a way to "wrap" a URL in an email, so that
it will always be seen as a URL, but can't remember how at the moment.
Something like how you can wrap an email address in <> and that protects it.

Can anyone help with this?

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Subject: Re: Is there an unambiguous syntax for URLs in a mail item?
From: Marco Moock
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 18:31 UTC
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From: mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de (Marco Moock)
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Subject: Re: Is there an unambiguous syntax for URLs in a mail item?
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On 05.11.2024 um 11:47 Uhr Kenny McCormack wrote:

> I have a situation where I am creating an email that gets piped to
> sendmail for delivery. Everything works fine, except:

Can you pipe it to a text file, so you can check if the application
itself does any wrapping?

It is also relevant if the mail is plain text or HTML - or both.

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