FTP links within Apple Mail

It is simple to have an http url link in an email. The recipient clicks and it and their browser opens up to show the web page. However, I need to insert an FTP link (ftp://server.foo.com). When a recipient receives this they are receiving the link as "http://www.".com/ This of course is wrong. I tried resending using the "link" feature in Mail and typed in the full URL and sent it to myself to test. The link works but it launched Dreamweaver on my system. Question: How do I change ftp links to open up in the browser via Mail? There's no preferences in Mail (or Dreamweaver) that prevent this.

I think you have two issues here.
One is how to embed FTP links in your messages.
The second is how to get 'ftp links to open up in the browser'
The second isn't going to happen, which means that it might not be worth spending much time on the first.
The default setting in Mac OS X is for FTP links to be handled by the Finder (the Finder connects to the FTP server and mounts the server on the desktop). There isn't any browser I'm aware of that will handle FTP links (e.g. display the directory listing in a browser window), and even if there were any (Firefox might do it, for example), the choice of application to handle FTP links is per-user so there is no way you can control or predict which application will be launched (most users would get the Finder and only those users who have specifically changed their FTP preferences would get a browser window).
Therefore I think your better plan is to implement some other access to the content (e.g. a web server) and provide HTTP links in your messages.

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Does this mean I cannot create sub-folders in my email account unless my service provider provides customers with the option of creating an IMAP email account?
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I REALLY need your help. What am I doing wrong?
I want to be able to send mail "From" [email protected] vs [email protected]
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What you are asking for is not possible, as directly as you are trying to do, but you can achieve the same results you seek with the tools you have.
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I have several IMAP accounts in Apple Mail. One of them is a Gmail account that I use as a conduit account for work, so when I reply to messages or compose new mail, I would like it to display a specific address in the "From:" field, instead of selecting it every time (I added my work account to Mail as well, though I forward messages to my Gmail account). So, for example, my Gmail account is "[email protected]" and my work email is "[email protected]".
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I configured Mail to use the work SMTP server to send messages from the Gmail account.
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In Mail, even if the message was sent to [email protected], Mail replies show up with [email protected] in the "From:" field
Yes. That is the way it is supposed to work.
I also set up a rule for redirecting Sent messages to Gmail and moving the original copies to Trash on the work account. In Lion, all was well and the replies indicated [email protected] in the "From:" field and when I manually applied the rule to the Sent messages, they were sent to the Gmail account.
That's the "articulation work" in action.
I've looked at some of the discussion you linked (thank you for that) and found it enlighening, though I am not done reading all of it yet.
There are a number of different issues going on. Modern e-mail is extraordinarily complicated.
What I do now is not forward work email and keep the daily workflow focused on the Inbox of the [email protected] account, which handles replies appropriately. I then set up a rule to redirect any mail from the work account that is over a day old to the Gmail account. I then organize it on the web interface (which is not optimal, but cuts down my time spent on the web interface from "always" to once daily or so).
You could probably improve that by creating folders in GMail from within Apple Mail. Once you move an old message from the work server to GMail where you have more room, you can have additional rules to move it around within GMail.
The only real, definitive solution is to have more room for e-mail. You should contact your system administrator and suggest switching to GMail or Microsoft's version. Everyone hates dealing with e-mail. That is why these transparent e-mail services are so popular. Once it gets setup, all the magic happens in the name servers and all anyone ever sees is "work.org". Plus, you will likely gain some additional functionality that Microsoft Exchange supports that older systems do not.
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What you have described is e-mail spoofing and Apple doesn't support that. No legitimate internet e-mail provider should support it. If Google does, then that is Google's problem. Most other e-mail servers would not allow that and that is why Apple doesn't support it. And, in general, Apple software is simply not very amenable to "hacks".
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