URLs not converting to links in HTML view

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DotNetNuke
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URLs not converting to links in HTML view

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I get HTML emails with URLs in them that are NOT links. I rely on Thunderbird converting these URLs into links by interpreting the message.

I have Thunderbird 52 installed on 2 Windows computers - on one the URLs convert to links automatically, on the other they are shown as text.

I found a work-around by switching Body view to plain text (then the URLs are converted to a links) however then I lose the ability to view images in emails and need to switch back and forth between text and HTML view. ](*,)

I thought this is related to some scam/spam filtering and now allowed all remote content in the settings but it's still not showing the links. I tried re-installing thunderbird.

Does anyone know why this is occuring? What controls if a text link in a HTML message is converted to a link or not?
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Re: URLs not converting to links in HTML view

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Re: URLs not converting to links in HTML view

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This happens when a message sent from some mobile mail apps includes a link that is entered directly as a URL, rather than embedded in a string of text, e.g. like http://www.url.lnk instead of like this. The mail app has no plain text option, just 'rich text'. There are a couple of add-ons that simplify the opening of such links:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde ... text-link/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunde ... /url-link/
DotNetNuke
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Re: URLs not converting to links in HTML view

Post by DotNetNuke »

I tried these add-ons before, they are for old versions of Thunderbird therefore won't work with 52. It looks like they are no longer maintained as this functionality is now built-in.

How come converting URLs to links in HTML body works on one install of Thunerbird but not another with the same email?

Again I'm referring to this type of structure:

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<HTML>
  <BODY>
     https://www.google.com/
  </BODY>
</HTML
Where they forget to make the URL into a link.

These are automated emails from a service that give a link to a file download.
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