Mail adding extra characters to hyperlink

Laura,

Open up Safari to the constantcontact website, and open a new email message open so you can see both windows. From the address bar in Safari highlight all of the address (or triple click) and then drag that address into the new email window. Copy the item you dragged and then paste the item into the signature preference file. Finally send the email and check the file received for errors. The hyperlink will not look correct in the "new mail" window but it will arrive correctly.

Hi Laura, welcome to Apple discussions.

You should find that this is purely due to a thing called "hyper text mark-up language" (HTML) and the way the computer interprets it. If a name contains any special character, which could be an "umlaut" or parantheses.

E.g: "marginal" turns into: "& quot; marginal & quot;" (without gaps between ampersand and quot because try and reply to this post and take the gap out and see what happens to the "&" and the "quot" with no gap: it turns into a "

Have fun with your machine, it looks fine (including the link you sent - opens both the same window)

Message was edited by: Alexandre

I'd like to learn if Apple will be addressing this issue soon.

You're not talking to Apple here, just other users. Regardless of that, there is no way to find out whether or when any issue will be addressed by Apple, so it would be best to proceed without counting on that.

Laura,

Go to this page http://www.createarevolution.com/blog/2008/02/07/creating-an-html-signature-in-a pple-mail/. This example worked but the instructions weren't 100% correct. I did get it to work just fine though. You will need a html editor and know how to embed a hyperlink. I use BBEdit for my html editor.

Start by creating a default signature in Mail with any text. This creates the file you will need to replace later. After you have done this completely quit Mail.app. Next you create a html file with your html editor and make your signature to say this "click here" or whatever you like, with fancy graphics and colors. You will have to code the html correctly to get the colors and graphics right. You will need a HTML editor to do it. Save the file and then put a .html on the end of it. Then you open the html file in Safari by control clicking it and select "open with Safari". Next inside Safari click save as Web Archive, and save it to the /Users/Library/Mail/Signatures/ folder under the same name that is already there. This replaces the current signature with your new html embedded one. Then you open up Mail and send a test message to verify that it worked.

Message was edited by: b3av1s

I tried replacing the percent signs with the html code for them (&#37) and it worked, sort of.
The link did not replace the code with %, but it went to the link anyway. I then removed the %3D%3D from the URL and I was taken to your page. You can strip off those %3Ds and it works just fine.

Laura,



Basic html is like this

<a href="www.apple.com">Click Here</a>

shows up like this:

Click Here

The problem is how the machine converts the percentage sign. It is definitely in the coding. you could try to give feedback to Apple here : http://www.apple.com/feedback/(maybe the mobile me option is best).

All the best

E.g: "marginal" turns into: "& quot; marginal & quot;" (without gaps between ampersand and quot because try and reply to this post and take the gap out and see what happens to the "&" and the "quot" with no gap: it turns into a "

It can be done: &quot; = " 🙂