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Sandy Foster - 03 May 2007 16:59 GMT

My sister has the most recent version of Eudora for her PC (Win XP), and
I have the same for my Mac (MacBook OS X 10.4.8). Her email account is
via GMail, which sends to her Eudora. Everything is fine, except that we
can't figure out who is responsible for a problem she is having. When I
send her a URL that shows "hot" in my Eudora, it arrives very
differently in her mail. If I copy/paste from Firefox (like this:
<http://www.apple.com/>) the font appears *enormous* ("Biggest") and
certainly not hot. Even if I reformat the link into Times New Roman (my
usual font), it isn't hot, though the size issue disappears.

Is there some setting in one of our versions of Eudora that we should be
doing differently? I send and get links from other people with no
problem, and she says the same thing.

Thanks for any ideas you may have.

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John H Meyers - 06 May 2007 06:23 GMT

> My sister has the most recent version of Eudora for her PC (Win XP), and
> I have the same for my Mac (MacBook OS X 10.4.8). Her email account is
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> certainly not hot. Even if I reformat the link into Times New Roman (my
> usual font), it isn't hot, though the size issue disappears.

Exactly how do you "copy/paste from Firefox"?
(using "Copy link location" function? From Address bar?)

Which of you (or both) sees the enormous font?
How does it look in Gmail's web view?

Gmail's "show original" might reveal a great deal
about what is really happening, to discern whether it
was sent improperly or later interpreted improperly;
you might post a short test message
exactly as seen via "show original"
(deleting actual addresses etc. for privacy)

What happens if you "Bcc:" a copy to yourself,
and read it back in your own Eudora?

Can you send as just plain text?
Windows Eudora will certainly make any plain text
http://anything.xyz a "live," clickable link,
and there aren't confusing HTML issues with plain text email.

> Is there some setting in one of our versions of Eudora
> that we should be doing differently? I send and get links
> from other people with no problem, and she says the same thing.

Maybe try sending only plain text.

Hard to see from here what's going on there;
my first guess would be about that original "copy/paste"

Of course, I'm actually a Windows user,
so everything I say could be completely wrong :)

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Sandy Foster - 06 May 2007 22:56 GMT

Thanks for your reply, John.

> Exactly how do you "copy/paste from Firefox"?
> (using "Copy link location" function? From Address bar?)

I've never seen the "Copy link location" function! I've always just
copied from the Address Bar.

> Which of you (or both) sees the enormous font?

My sister.

> How does it look in Gmail's web view?

Just fine! It's the right size and hot/clickable.

> Gmail's "show original" might reveal a great deal
> about what is really happening, to discern whether it
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> What happens if you "Bcc:" a copy to yourself,
> and read it back in your own Eudora?

It's perfectly okay if I BCC to myself, but if she replies to my
message, I see what she saw.

> Can you send as just plain text?

And that's the answer! I had played around with plain text before, but
it didn't seem to make any difference. Now, however, it does, so the
problem is solved. Thanks! :)

> Windows Eudora will certainly make any plain text
> http://anything.xyz a "live," clickable link,
> and there aren't confusing HTML issues with plain text email.

Exactly.

> Of course, I'm actually a Windows user,
> so everything I say could be completely wrong :)

LOL! But it wasn't -- thanks for taking the time to reply. :)

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Stof - 06 May 2007 12:03 GMT

> My sister has the most recent version of Eudora for her PC (Win XP), and
> I have the same for my Mac (MacBook OS X 10.4.8). Her email account is
> via GMail, which sends to her Eudora. Everything is fine, except that we
> can't figure out who is responsible for a problem she is having. When I
> send her a URL that shows "hot" in my Eudora, it arrives very
> differently in her mail. (...)

[I was just going to ask a similar question. I might as well try this
for a bandwagon]

I do have a similar problem. If I send a hot link to someone with
Outlook Express the link shows up as plain text. In the reply from out
of OE my Eudora gives the link again as hot. What is it that OE doesn't
recognise?
A second question is, how can I send a link to someone with OE that
shows up hot at the other end?
I know, it's easy, copy-paste/drag&drop, but for some of my connections
even that is a bit steep. So I would very much like to know how to
accomodate them.

thanks Stof

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Kathy Morgan - 07 May 2007 03:17 GMT

> I do have a similar problem. If I send a hot link to someone with
> Outlook Express the link shows up as plain text. In the reply from out
> of OE my Eudora gives the link again as hot. What is it that OE doesn't
> recognise?

Are you including the full URL with angle brackets around it? Eg.,
<http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan>. If the brackets are missing, or
the "http://" that may cause the problem.

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Kathy - If you're reading this in your web browser from Google or
similar forum, NNTP "newsreaders" are a better way to access the
content. <http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/how-it-works.html>
Links to NNTP newsreaders at <http://www.newsreaders.com/>

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Stof - 09 May 2007 20:49 GMT

> > (...) If I send a hot link to someone with
> > Outlook Express the link shows up as plain text. In the reply from out
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> <http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan>. If the brackets are missing, or
> the "http://" that may cause the problem.

Verroest, Kathy, krijg nou wat! To say it in Dutch. Meaning to express
my surprise and relief. Never knew that. No, I didn't add the angle
brackets before. Now the links show up hot.

Thanks, Stof

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Kathy Morgan - 10 May 2007 03:27 GMT

> > Are you including the full URL with angle brackets around it? Eg.,
> > <http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan>. If the brackets are missing, or
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> my surprise and relief. Never knew that. No, I didn't add the angle
> brackets before. Now the links show up hot.

Thanks for posting back. I wasn't sure if that was the answer; I was
actually just guessing.

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John H Meyers - 11 May 2007 07:35 GMT

> I wasn't sure if that was the answer;
> I was actually just guessing.

Good guessing (or intuition) is of the utmost value!

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
[Albert Einstein]

But it's evident that you have all the knowledge, too :)

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