Is there a fix for incorrect hot links?

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kimnjerry

Hello.

Frequently, within an e-mail, I'll find a hotlink which runs into the
following text, or which ends before it should. In both cases, the
links only work manually. Is there a fix which will solve these
problems? I'm using Office 2004, OX 10.3.9.

Thanks.
 
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Diane

Frequently, within an e-mail, I'll find a hotlink which runs into the
following text, or which ends before it should. In both cases, the
links only work manually. Is there a fix which will solve these
problems? I'm using Office 2004, OX 10.3.9.
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It has to do with the way the links are sent. Long URLs do not wrap
correctly unless they are enclosed in brackets.

Enclose the URL with brackets viz: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> so that
if the URL wraps over more than one line, it will still work when it gets
there.

"technically, brackets are part of the URL format specification (RFC 1738)
and are used to differentiate URL's from other things around them." And,
"the <>'s help the mail client (or whatever) to find the true start & end of
the URL and ignore the line break as the start/end of URL." When you don¹t
enclose in brackets URL's longer than 80 characters can be broken.

See this blog article for tips and scripts to insert URLs into an Entourage
message.

Insert URLs into a message (The Entourage Help Blog)
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2007/07/insert_urls_into_a_message.html>
 
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