Trying to send a link to friends in an email. If I send the original url? by copying and pasting into the message area, it works/clicks fine. If I use tinyurl to make the address shorter, the tiny link doesn't work.
e.g.
www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/inyourtown/westburynews/9687001.Mayors_fast_track_cash_at_Castle_Combe/ this one works (I hope!).
www.tinyurl.com/dycevn8 this one doesn't. Ah, correction, it works here, but it doesn't work in an email!! Further edit, it comes up in a preview thing.
Any advice to help me make the thing work in an email please?
Yours, Puzzled.
Last edited by: Duncan on Mon 7 May 12 at 14:18
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www.tinyurl.com/dycevn8
Can't see much wrong with that, Duncan. I've just emailed it to myself, and the link is working perfectly.
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>> www.tinyurl.com/dycevn8
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>> Can't see much wrong with that, Duncan. I've just emailed it to myself, and the
>> link is working perfectly.
Ditto for me.
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Last edited by: Zero on Mon 7 May 12 at 14:41
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Poster with good memories that I post regularly asking for help with some bit of computers that I don't understand, so please humour me......
When I put the tinyurl link into an email, it doesn't work. It doesn't go blue, and doesn't light up when I hover the pointer over it. I can of course, email the original long link, but why doesn't it work in tiny form?
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If you ask a technical question about your car, you would tell us about the make of car, model, engine, size, etc.
To answer your question, it would help to know:
1. your OS
2. your email client and security settings
3. your friend's email client and security settings
However, based on your last post,:
>> When I put the tinyurl link into an email, it doesn't work. It doesn't go
>> blue, and doesn't light up when I hover the pointer over it. I can of
>> course, email the original long link, but why doesn't it work in tiny form?
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I would hazard a guess that if you insert " www. " just before "tinyurl" part of the address, it should show up in blue in your draft email:
change
tinyurl.com/c3v3cer
to
www.tinyurl.com/c3v3cer
(note that this forum software will have hidden the http: and forward slashes in the address that it appears in print here).
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>> To answer your question, it would help to know:
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>> 1. your OS
>> 2. your email client and security settings
>> 3. your friend's email client and security settings
1. Windows 7
2. Yahoo Mail
3. Various email clients
>> I would hazard a guess that if you insert " www. " just before "tinyurl"
>> part of the address, it should show up in blue in your draft email:
>>
>> change
>> tinyurl.com/c3v3cer
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>> to
>> www.tinyurl.com/c3v3cer
Tried that, it still doesn't work.
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Are you sure you are creating your mails in HTML rather than plain text, or that you are not doing something to change the font from HTML to plain text? No idea how you'd do that in Yahoo mail but someone will be along soon who knows... (is that browser based?)
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>> 2. Yahoo Mail >>
That means web mail then, and not a desktop email client.
Which browser are you using?
I will just try and see what I get on yahoo web mail, and then I will report back.
Last edited by: John H on Mon 7 May 12 at 15:54
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I have just tried it using yahoo webmail, with Firefox12 on a Vista PC.
In the compose email page, on Rich Text settings, all links are non-clickable when entered.
If I then click to change over to Plain Text mode, all links go blue and become clickable - unless they are NOT prefixed by http and/or www.
If I do the above vice-versa, i.e. start in Plaint Text mode to then switch to Rich Text, that does does not convert any of the links to clickable. Switching back to plain makes them all clickable.
Conclusion: my Vista, yahoo web mail, and firefox12 settings produce the above behaviour.
YMMV.
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>> In the compose email page, on Rich Text settings, all links are non-clickable when entered.
>> If I then click to change over to Plain Text mode, all links go blue
>> and become clickable - unless they are NOT prefixed by http and/or www.
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>> If I do the above vice-versa, i.e. start in Plaint Text mode to then switch
>> to Rich Text, that does does not convert any of the links to clickable. Switching
>> back to plain makes them all clickable.
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Just tried switching from rich text to plain text and the links are blue and clickable. If I enable preview, it goes to the tinyurl site with a clickable link to the required site. If I disable preview, clicking on the link in the email takes me straight to the page required.
Phew! Thanks everyone.
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>> Which browser are you using?
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Google Chrome.
Thanks all, for the replies.
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Try putting a space after the URL and then either a return or more text.
I have had things go wrong when I when I hit the return key immediately after the link. Can't say which does it as I use two different webmails and Outlook 2007.
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>> (note that this forum software will have hidden the http: and forward slashes in the
>> address that it appears in print here).
Not if you put the http and 2 slashes bit in twice ;o)
http://tinyurl.com/c3v3cer
http://www.tinyurl.com/c3v3cer
But unfortunately doing that stops the links from working
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How do I make a link clickable? - Clk Sec
