How to prevent long URL wrapping in most email apps

Jan 16, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: ars

Mail wraps URL's longer than 80 characters, so that they no longer work correctly when a recipient clicks on the link. I know that you can use TinyURL to mail shorter URLs (see this previous hint for automated ways of doing this), but there is another way to include long URL's which is easier, especially if you include several links in one email.

Just put the URL between angle brackets, i.e., like this:

<http://www.somesite.com/a/really/long/url>
When formed in this way, the link remains clickable for the recipient of the Mail message.

[robg adds: This is a relatively basic tip, and one that I've personally known for a long time, though I don't know where I learned it. In searching both the site and Mail's help, I didn't find this documented in either place, so here it is.]

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