Can someone tell me why,

[babylonsister]

when I post links in an e-mail, they're not showing up as active? Is something turned off
I need to turn on?

Thanks for any help.

[BlueJazz]

1. Do you mean here (at DU) or in your mail program? (outlook express??)

[babylonsister]

2. I have an account in yahoo; the links used to be live, but

they no longer are for some reason. Here I'm okay.

[canetoad]

3. Tell you nothing, take you nowhere...!

:hi:

When you say not showing active, is that at your end or the email receiver's end? Or both?

For example, I have HTML turned off in my Thunderbird email, so when I paste a link it just looks like plain text. I don't really use webmail much but maybe there is a setting that allows you to compose in plain text and that has been turned on.

[babylonsister]

4. Ha! Hello, friend!

Both. When I look at what I want to send, what I've copied and pasted, it's not highlighted, nor is it on the recipient's end.

Maybe I should poke around in the control panel and see if I can find html, and whether I turned it on or off?

:pals:

[canetoad]

5. Yeah, maybe you should

But it sounds unusual for webmail to NOT have HTML enabled by default. Another thing to check is in your Firefox Options. On the content tab / colours button, there is an option to underline links or not.

Everything else working fine??

[babylonsister]

6. Firefox looks okay. This computer defaults

to Outlook, which I don't use. I recently clicked on Outlook and quickly got out of it; I wonder if that has something to do with it?

Everything else is working fine at the moment; I saved a recent .pdf file I rec'd thanks to your input, so thanks! Looks great!

[canetoad]

7. Nah. Outlook wouldn't matter

Mail programs don't affect webmail and vice versa. Maybe some some obscure security setting that Yahoo has enabled?

[babylonsister]

8. I'm still trying to figure it out;

one day it worked, the next it didn't, and you know how patient I am. I'll keep plugging, thanks!

[BlueJazz]

9. Try pressing "Control" when you click on link.