[MlMt] hover over link to view it?

Shoshanna Green shoshannag at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 11:00:06 EST 2020


A reasonable question, but no, I'm not.

Glenn's message, which just arrived, reminds me that I should add that 
I'm running MailMate 5757 under High Sierra 10.13.6. Maybe the lack of 
URL popups is due to my OS being behind the times?

On 31 Dec 2020, at 10:30, Guillaume Barrette wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    Just an idea, may not be related since I don't know exactly how 
> this popup is coded, but are you using a custom stylesheet for your 
> email viewer? Maybe this could interfere with the popup
>
> --
> Guillaume
>
> On 31 Dec 2020, at 10:12, Shoshanna Green wrote:
>
>> Huh -- I'm on 5757 and I'm not seeing it, and haven't for ages. I'm 
>> talking not about links where the URL is explicitly shown in the 
>> message text, as in Guillaume's message, but about encoded text 
>> links, such as in daily news summaries from newspapers: the text says 
>> "More Things Are Terrible, Say Sources" and clicking it will take me 
>> to an article on the paper's website. Encoded links like those show 
>> no popup URLs for me; hovering over them does nothing.
>>
>> I restart MailMate at least daily, and I just tried turning my VPN 
>> off and restarting MM again, in case that was the problem (even 
>> though I had already set MM to bypass the VPN, because it causes SMTP 
>> problems in sending mail). No joy. Is there something else that could 
>> be blocking this? I can't see anything in the preferences...
>>
>> Shoshanna
>>
>> On 31 Dec 2020, at 10:02, Guillaume Barrette wrote:
>>
>>> Working as well on my side in the non-beta MM version: 5673
>>>
>>> Have you tried a restart of MailMate and see if this comes back?
>>>
>>> From here, I see that MM doesn't show it if the address displayed is 
>>> the same as the actual one, maybe that what you're seeing?
>>>
>>> https://lists.freron.com/mailmate/2016-September/006940.html
>>>
>>> Hope this help!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Guillaume
>>>
>>> On 31 Dec 2020, at 9:56, Ian Petersen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Shoshanna,
>>>>
>>>>> I really miss being able to hover over a link in an email and see 
>>>>> where it would send me. Might that feature return?
>>>>
>>>> Seems to be working fine here in 5757 …
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Ian
>>
>>
>> Shoshanna Green
>> shoshannag at gmail.com
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Shoshanna Green
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