Hyperlinks in email

[scott216]

When I get an instant notification email from one of the macrumors forums, the link back to the forum post is not a clickable link. It's just plain text. I looked in the my CP settings and didn't see anything for this. I'm using MS Outlook on Win 7 for email (I have Mac and PC). Is there a way to get emails to have clickable links?

 

[oldhifi]

you don't want that, thats why its in plain text..

 

[lelisa13p]

you don't want that, thats why its in plain text..

Why doesn't he want that? Mine have links that work.

 

[scott216]

you don't want that, thats why its in plain text..

I do want hyperlinks in my email. Every other forum I subscribe too has hyperlinks. It's pain to cut and paste into my browser address bar.

 

[oldhifi]

Why doesn't he want that? Mine have links that work.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/phishing.html

 

[lelisa13p]

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/phishing.html

I get that and it's generally true but MR hasn't had that problem in legitimate email updates. Hover the cursor over the URL in a MR email and you can see where it goes.

 

[scott216]

I'm not really worried about Phishing. I always look at the email address.

So back to my original question. Is this a setting by the MacRumors forum. Or maybe it's something with outlook. But since I get other emails with links, I'm thinking it's a MacRumors setting.

 

[lelisa13p]

I haven't done anything special to my Prefs at MR. My email updates go to a Gmail address and it's all OK. Maybe it's an Outlook thing?

Has it always been like that or did it start at a certain time?

 

[scott216]

Has it always been like that or did it start at a certain time?

I think it's always been like this

 

[lelisa13p]

I just reviewed my Gmail settings to see if I had something set there and I see nothing that can be configured with regard to URLs in emails.

About a year or so ago I saw that same problem in all MR update emails. See thread here, dated 2013/10/21.