Windows Mail App: Links appearing as plain text.

Some of my emails are not properly displaying web links through my Yahoo account.  For example:  I am personally subscribed to a website known as Slickdeals (http://slickdeals.net), and none of their Deal Notifications have active links within
the Mail app.  Instead, website addresses appear as plain text, even though the same links work just fine when logging into my Yahoo Mail account through IE or Google Chrome.
How can I fix this issue?  I actually love the Mail app, but this is simply a deal-breaker for me if it can not be amended.

website addresses appear as plain text, even though the same links work just fine when logging into my Yahoo Mail account through IE or Google Chrome.
That could just be a difference between E-mail client treatment of text strings which look like URLs but are in HTML and therefore are not links.   Different E-mail clients also provide different functionality in support of such strings when Plain-text
messages are involved.
Notice that now IE10 has a helpful right-click Go to copied address command to help reduce the inconvenience of such a situation.
FYI
Robert Aldwinckle

Similar Messages

  • How do I force iPhone Mail app to reply in plain text?

    How do I force the iPhone Mail app to reply in plain text?

    If I take the above preferences and change them from Arial 14 to Arial 144 I can get the body in about half of my current messages to display in 144 pt font.
    It varies by mail client of sender and to which mail box it goes to on my Mac.  Haven't found a commonality yet.
    Someone here will have a brilliant answer, however.

  • Encoding problems in email while on Windows Mail app

    Hello.
    I have a question concerning email and encoding problems in the Windows Mail App in Windows 8.1.  I have encountered a problem with an email I received, while reading, I see strange ASCII characters in one email.  I have never encountered it in
    my web browsers nor Gmail, just the Mail App.
    I was referred to come here when I had asked a similar question there:
    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-ecoms/strange-foreign-ascii-characters-appearing-in/911f8a44-c302-4fa1-bcaa-3297b32d9120
    I don't know which forum to go to so I picked here.
    Is there any way that it can be resolved.  I tried to troubleshoot, nothing worked; I even synched, to no avail.
    I look forward to a response.
    JB

    Hi JB,
    The responder on answers was a bit confused. The MSDN forums are for developers to discuss writing their own apps. We cannot help with problems using Windows or its built-in apps.
    If the folks on answers cannot help then you may need to open a support incident. See
    http://support.microsoft.com , or the folks on answers may be able to direct you to the specific page for the Windows Mail app.
    --Rob

  • Windows Mail App not Auto Syncing

    Hey guys, I'm having an issue with the Windows Mail app on both my laptop and Surface RT. I'm running 8.1 on both and I've recently ditched Gmail in favor of Outlook.com. Right now my Gmail accounts are forwarding to Outlook. However, I still sign in to
    my computers using my Gmail account (not sure if that matters). Ever since I eliminated my Gmail accounts from the Windows mail app, the app will not automatically sync with Outlook.com when I receive messages. The only time I get updates is if I manually
    sync. Yes, I have set the email account to "download as items arrive". I have restarted my computers, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the mail app. Not sure what else to do. Help! 

    Hi,
    Accrording to your description,the issue occurred on both your laptop and Surface RT.
    So,I think the issue isn't related to Windows mail app.
    In addition to ZigZag3143x mentioned, I suggest you create a new mail account to test this issue.
    If it works,I suggest you remove your outlook.com account and re-add it.
    Regards,
    Kelvin hsu
    TechNet Community Support

  • Having trouble removing a student email account from the Windows Mail App because the school has started using office 365 for thier email which i dont have access to

    I was wondering if anybody has any ideas on how to remove a gmail account that was set up by a community college for use on their mail servers and then find out that after awhile they have locked you out because they have started using office 365 for their
    emails and you are left with a student email account that you have no idea how to delete because you have missied out on deleting it before they changed to a different email provider?
    Anybody with ideas please help because I don't know what to do

    Hi,
    Regarding to Windows Mail App, do you mean the Modern UI App in Windows 8.1? Do you mean that you want to remove the email account from Mial App? Generally, we can simply remove the account by the "Account" option in Mail App (Open Mail App, move
    the mouse the right chram bar, click Account, then click the mail account\Remove account), but if the email acocunt is tied with the Microsoft Account which is used on the pc, in that case, it is unavailable to remove the email account, you need to contact
    your college to disconnect the Microsoft Account.
    If I'm misunderstanding something, please free correct me.
    Regards
    Yolanda Zhu
    TechNet Community Support

  • Windows Mail app in LAN-Network "e-mail address not available"

    Hello,
    I have a Problem with the Windows Mail app at Windows 8.1. Everything works normally at home, but when I try to update mails at university I get the message "e-mail address not available", but Hotmail works fine. I have four more addresses synced,
    none of these is updated while I am logged in at university.
    So when I start my computer, I have to log in in the University network via IE, there is also a timeout after an hour or so.
    I have to go access my mails in the browser, but that is quite bothersome with four e-mail addresses.
    Anyone who has an idea how to solve this?
    UPDATE: OneDrive does also not sync. It says all Files are up to date, but there are not. If I try to download files via Onedrive App, I get the error message "Currently, the file can't be opened. An Error ocurred with OneDrive."

    Hi,
    How about your problem now? Is your Mail APP still works properly in your home? According to your description, it's should your School network problem. Is your IE enabled any network Proxy when you using it at school?
    Roger Lu
    TechNet Community Support

  • In firefox 3.6 all websites appear in plain text

    I have am a regular user of firefox, but this time all websites appear in plain text in the browser (firefox 3.6).

    Reset the page zoom on pages that cause problems: <b>View > Zoom > Reset</b> (Ctrl+0 (zero); Cmd+0 on Mac)
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Zoom_text_of_web_pages

  • DECODING MAIL FROM WEB SERVER IN PLAIN TEXT FORMAT(THE MAIL BEING SENT BY LABVIEW APPLICATION)

    Hi All
    I have a labview application that send mail every hour automatically.
    But actually the mail has to be decoded from the web server(by another application).But now when that application decode the data in the mail(that is send by labview application)its getting some funny characters inside that can not be detected by the decoding application
    (When open the mail no problem.)But actually our goal is to decode the mail from the web server.
    Why the extra characters are appearing when decoding from the server?Is it because of the HTML format?
    Is there option to send the mail in plain text format(not like attachment)?
    In outlook we can change the setting (tools->options->send->mail sending format->....here we can set as HTML format/Plain Text format)
    Like that at the sending time can i chenge the sending option as plain text format in my labview application?
    Thanks...

    smercurio_fc wrote:
    Then it sounds to me like this other application is not decoding the attachment correctly, especially if you looked at the attachment yourself after you received it and verified it's correct.
    No, no, smercurio. This is charcter encoding here. In older versions of LabVIEW you could specify what character encoding to use when sending an email through the SMTP VIs. But that gave problems since people in certain locales used certain characters that where not transfered right when the wrong encoding was specified, and that encoding stuff is not understood by most people at all, so the wrong selected encoding was rather the rule than the exception. In newer versions of LabVIEW do the SMTP VIs handle the encoding automatically based on the currently used locale on the system.
    This change is documented in the Upgrade Notes of LabVIEW and probably happened around LabVIEW 7.1 or 8.0.
    A decent mail client will recognize the encoding and convert it back to whatever is necessary before presenting it to the user. The OPs posters server application obviously isn't a smart mail client but probably just some crude text file parser that has no notion of proper mail character encoding and how to deal with it.
    I would suppose that there is a chance to dig into the SMTP VIs itself and try to manipulate or disable that encoding altogether in there but that may open a whole can of worms somewhere else. The proper way would be to process the incoming mail by a character encoding aware mail client before passing it to the text parser. On Unix setting up something like this would be fairly trivial.
    Rolf Kalbermatter
    Message Edited by rolfk on 01-23-2008 10:21 AM
    Rolf Kalbermatter
    CIT Engineering Netherlands
    a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

  • Windows Mail App - Install Certificate

    We've installed Windows 8.1 (Enterprise) on to our corporate network, but we're having problems adding an Exchange account to the Mail app.  After entering all the necessary settings (Domain, server, user name etc.) - we get the following error:
    To use this account, choose a valid certificate on this PC.  If there isn't one, contact systems administrator. 
    We have digital certificate set up on our Exchange, but this doesn't appear to be enough for it connect to the mailbox.
    Anyone else experiencing this - any advice??
    Thanks

    Hi,
    Please check the Certificate to see if we have installed the self-signed certificate.
    1.  Start > Run, type “MMC” and enter.
    2.  In the open window, click File > Add/Remove snap in…
    3.  In the Available snap-ins tab, select Certificates > Add > Computer account > Local computer.
    4.  Click “Finish” and “Ok”.
    5.  Expand Certificates > Personal > Certificate.
    Meanwhile, I suggest you refer to Self-Signed Certificates section below.
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/11/26/supporting-windows-8-mail-in-your-organization.aspx
    Regards,
    Kelvin Xu
    TechNet Community Support

  • Simple text Editor App.. Saving Plain Text

    Hi All,
    I am trying to write my first text application in cocoa... I have got a working app from an Apple tutorial, however when saving, it uses the following:
    Code:
    - (NSData *)dataRepresentationOfType:(NSString *)aType
    NSData *data;
    [self setString:[textView textStorage]];
    data = [NSArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:[self string]];
    return data;
    Which saves the content as not plain text. Is there anyway I can change the above to save as plain text ?
    Any help / direction would be great! Thanks,

    Perhaps something like this will work for you:
    NSString *s = [textView string];
    NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes: [s UTF8String] length: [s length]];

  • Mail.app, Link on signature-icon does not open URL

    In a mail-signature I have a FaceBook-icon with a Hyperlink to a FaceBook-site.
    - This link works not in a received message, when the recipient is Mail.app on Yosemite.
    - With Mail.app on Mavericks it works well.
    Behaviour:
    - Double-Click opens the attached picture, but not the URL in the browser, as expected.
    - URL ist shown correctly on MouseOver
    ... sometimes, condition are not reproducible ....it works :-(
    To create the link I used the method as described at.  http://mac-fusion.com/clickable-social-media-icons-in-your-mail-app-signature/
    Can anybody confirm this behavior?
    Any workaround in creating the Hyperlink - or is it a bug?

    Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
    Mail Feedback

  • Can the Date of the messages in Mail.app all appear as "date_sent"?

    I have an IMAP mail account, and it has been added into the Mail.app on my Mac (OS X Yosemite 10.10.2).
    As I known, a mail message has three "time stamps", which are date_sent, date_received, and date_internal.
    The first two time stamps(date_sent & date_received) are stored in the source of the mail message,
    and the last one(date_internal) is stored on the mail server.
    This date_internal is the time when this mail message is received on the server for the first time.
    Normally, date_received and date_internal are the same or very close to each other.
    However, when some old mail messages are synced back to the mail server, these two time stamps are quite different.
    For example, I miss-deleted some mail messages on the server, and I have the backup files on my Mac, so I can sync these messages back to the mail server through IMAP protocol.
    In the situation above, the date_received is still the origin received time because it is always stored in the source of the mail message, while the date_internal then becomes the time when I sync this mail message.
    Unfortunitly, Mai.app uses the date_internal as the default Date appearing in the list, not the date_received, not the date_sent, and even no settings about this can be found.
    Can the Mail.app shows the date_received instead of the date_internal in my mail list? Thank you so much!
    Btw, I have tried the AppleScript to change the dateReceived element, but the system said my operation is not allowed.

    Maybe I'm missing something...?
    In Mail.app -> View -> Columns you can add various columns to the view.
    Is that not what you want?

  • Mail.app 3.6 - change bounce text

    Is there any way to change text that Mail 3.6 sends when bouncing an email?
    I'd like to change 'From: postoffice' to 'From: Mail Delivery System'
    I'd also like to hide my IP address and 'Resent-From' line that reveals 'bounce' is actually being 'resent' from my email address and not from my mail server.
    If bounce is going to help discourage spam by appearing as if email account does not exist, then it's essential to change these settings.

    Hi Darrell, true, Bounce only notifies them they've reached a valid eMail addy.
    Is there some way to setup a Bounce reply using WebMail on the server end? Or is this mail server on your Mac?
    Not sure how they spoof the IP, but maybe using AppleScript to compose a Bounce Reply?
    Been unsuccessful finding where the bounce header is stored.

  • App Links appear to use Premium Messaging

    I was wondering if anyone knew why when I use the ability to send an app to my phone using the "Send to my phone" button on a developer.palm.com/webChannel/index.php?packeted=... page and it appears to send the link to the phone as a "Premium Message" I have this feature turned off on my phone service since normally these are used for services that cost money, and don't want to have to enable it.  Having seen what is sent to a friends phone who has this enabled and I don't see any reason for this to be done this way, but perhaps I am missing something.  Is there a fee being charged for being sent the link?
    In summary instead of getting a link I could use to try and install an application, I get the following message sent to my phone via SMS:
    "Premium Messaging to this mobile number has been blocked.  Only the account owner may request a change to this setting with his/her wireless service provider"
    I have both SMS and MMS enabled and working, so I believe the error message is correct.
    Thanks,
      BIll

    I selected "Install" on one of the Free Applications at Project Appetite and after entering my mobile number, it ends up sending me the same error message.  It does seem to be using the same mechanism.  Which probably means I would be unable to get any of those applications.
      Bill

  • How do I get incoming mail messages to display in plain text?

    Recently some incoming messages are virtually unreadable because they are in rich text format and render with incredibly small font size. They are mostly coming from work colleagues using Windows. Recently I upgraded yo Yosemite and they were upgraded to Windows 7: im not sure if either is relevant.
    I'm sure there's a trick somewhere to increase the viewing font size after the message displays, but I'd rather it displayed legibly in the first place...
    Any ideas?

    If I take the above preferences and change them from Arial 14 to Arial 144 I can get the body in about half of my current messages to display in 144 pt font.
    It varies by mail client of sender and to which mail box it goes to on my Mac.  Haven't found a commonality yet.
    Someone here will have a brilliant answer, however.

Maybe you are looking for