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How to make automatic links when copy and pasting hyperlinks

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When copy and paste hyperlinks into emails, link is inactive until manually add link. How to make linking automatic in Thunderbird.

When copy and paste hyperlinks into emails, link is inactive until manually add link. How to make linking automatic in Thunderbird.

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The link is inactive by design to allow editing (selecting with the mouse) in the message, but it's active in the sent message, as you can confirm by viewing a draft or the sent message.

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The link is inactive by design to allow editing (selecting with the mouse) in the message, but it's active in the sent message, as you can confirm by viewing a draft or the sent message.

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Thank you. It is very easy once you know how to do it. This should be simply noted (as you did) somewhere in documentation.

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It's mentioned here.