a link is created by the sender, Thunderbird does not scan the text of an email looking to text that might be links.

You senders are perhaps not tech savy enough to actually paste a link into a mail.

Matt said

a link is created by the sender, Thunderbird does not scan the text of an email looking to text that might be links. You senders are perhaps not tech savy enough to actually paste a link into a mail.

My network administrator father knows how to send links just fine.

I didn't realise this was going on the forums so maybe I wasn't very clear: Outlook and gmail's web interface is able to recognise that a web address that has been copied and pasted into an email (http:// and all) is a hyperlink and makes it clickable, are you saying that thunderbird doesn't have this capability?

tdon said

Matt said

a link is created by the sender, Thunderbird does not scan the text of an email looking to text that might be links. You senders are perhaps not tech savy enough to actually paste a link into a mail.

My network administrator father knows how to send links just fine.

I didn't realise this was going on the forums so maybe I wasn't very clear: Outlook and gmail's web interface is able to recognise that a web address that has been copied and pasted into an email (http:// and all) is a hyperlink and makes it clickable, are you saying that thunderbird doesn't have this capability?

Thunderbird does have the capability of clickable links, and even recognizes them in plain text. However, it does not do this in the Compose window when you are writing a message, but only in the message pane.

And it does not recognize plain text in a mail and convert it to a hyperlink. IF a HTML mail contains something that looks like a link it will not be converted upon receipt. Only open send.

So if the mail is sent without a hyperlink, NO Thunderbird does not second guess. The sender apparently chose plain text over a hyperlink.

".........Thunderbird does have the capability of clickable links, and even recognizes them in plain text. However, it does not do this in the Compose window when you are writing a message, but only in the message pane." </blockquote>

Don't understand.

I write a message including a hyperlink and send it to myself. The link appears as plain text, not as a link.

How can I specify a link rather than plain text?

Edit: Wrong thread. Disregard