mail links don't work on my Mac

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mail links don't work on my Mac

I received an email which has lots of links, but most of the links don't work on my Mac (OS 10.3.9) but they work fine on my PC at work. I find this strange, would be happy to forward the email so you can see it it works on your machine. FWIW I can download PDFs fine from those links, but the links which link to websites don't work, it you see what I mean. Presumably it's to do with the html with which the email is written, I know nothing about such things but am trying to help the sender...

Thanks,

Michael

iMac, 1 GHz PowerPC G4, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on Mar 2, 2008 9:27 AM

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Answer 1

Sagesse

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Mar 2, 2008 9:32 AM in response to ibisbill

What browser is set as your default? If you copy the links form the e-mail and paste them into the address bar of the browser, do they work? If not, what does happen?

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ali brown

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Mar 2, 2008 10:35 AM in response to ibisbill

Hi Michael!

In the Email notification, you received for this this post, does This Link work?

ali b

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ibisbill Author

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Mar 2, 2008 2:02 PM in response to Sagesse

Firefox is default browser. When I copy the links from the e-mail and paste them into the address bar of the browser they rather unexpectedly do a Google search for those words.

Michael

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ibisbill Author

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Mar 2, 2008 2:03 PM in response to ali brown

Clicking on This Link takes me back to this topic, is that what you would expect?

Tnx,

Michael

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ali brown

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Mar 2, 2008 2:09 PM in response to ibisbill

You're Welcome Michael,

"Clicking on This Link takes me back to this topic, is that what you would expect?"
If you mean you clicked on the The Link, in the notification Email, then yes.

The link in that Email worked, so the problem is not on your Mac, but with how the sender is formatting the links being sent to you.

ali b

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ibisbill Author

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Mar 2, 2008 2:37 PM in response to ali brown

Ah, that's what I thought, thanks.

Michael

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ali brown

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Mar 2, 2008 2:40 PM in response to ibisbill

Michael,

You're Welcome.

ali b

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