Sending 'Link By E-Mail" Problem

New user to XP Home Edition.

When I had WIN98 and I wanted to send a link to someone I would just click FILE/SEND/LINK BY E-MAIL and it would bring up my OE with the link already pasted into the body of the letter, as well as an attachment. Now when I do this with XP I get the attachment, but no link in the body. I prefer the link in the body of the letter. I end up doing a copy/paste but wonder if there's an option I can change that I am missing to have the link show in the body.

Any ideas?????

Thanks.

 

Do you have that pesky "unsafe attachment" feature enabled? If so, disable it and see what happens.

 

This is one of the changes that you'll find in XP. Instead of inserting the link address into the message as it did in 98 the link is now added as an attachment.

If you want to add the link to your message, open a mail message, place your cursor where you want the link to appear, click on Insert|Hyperlink and then you can either type in the address or do a cut and paste.

Ya gotta wonder why they change things that seem to work so well.

 

Found this, though I've not tried it?

Daizy

 

Daizy;

I tried it, works as advertised. Thanks


Panda;

The following is from the read file that comes with the program;

"This add-on context menu item allows you to open a mail client window and add the web page Title and URL to it. Handy if you want to refer someone to the page in an E-Mail or Newsgroup post. Requires Internet Explorer 4 or higher. To use, just right-click anywhere in a web page and select "E-mail page ". The url will be copied to the subject and the title plus url to the body of the new message. "

Though this still will not allow you to click on File|Send|Link by E-Mail, it is quicker than the work-around you've been using.

 

Hey Rod! Thanks for giving it a go. Glad to hear it worked.

Daizy

 

Thanks for all the help, everyone, but what really is the difference between my copy/paste and the downloading of the program that lets you right click and select 'email page?' You still have to click something to get what you want. I'll check it out, anyway, since it worked so well for Rod.

Thanks......

 

You gotta love how M$ changes stuff that works perfectly well.....

We'll never know !

 

Panda:

I suppose the only real difference is that with the add-on you can right click from within the web-page, select "E-Mail Page" and have an OE message window open automatically and then send without having to open OE, or cut and paste.

 

But, when you 'send by email' it automatically opens OE for you. It just doesn't show the link in the body. It's almost a mute point now. Different strokes for different folks.....

Thanks......

 

Panda .... I think what you want is this link

 

doubleu;

Thanks for the input, but the problem wasn't that Panda's OE wouldn't work or wasn't recognized but rather that her new version does not place the address link into an e-mail message when she selects file|send|link by e-mail as she had become accustomed to it doing in earlier versions, instead it only creates an attachment in the message. What Panda was trying to figure out was if there was a way to make IE/OE insert the link address into the body of an e-mail message as it did in earlier versions.


Panda:

I was only trying to point out that the fix offered by Daizy was more in line with what you had become accustomed to doing in Win98, except instead of clicking on the File menu, you right click within the page itself, which has to be less cumbersome than the cut & paste method. Maybe your right... Different strokes for different folks....

 

Rod.

You hit the nail right on the head! Your first paragraph explained it perfectly.

I think I'll just do the copy/paste. I'm used to it now. Just wish M$ would leave some things alone when upgrading. Then again....different strokes.......

Thanks, everyone, for all your tips.

 

Couldn't agree with you more.

 

While doing some more research into your question I discovered a solution to your problem that involves replacing the sendmaill.dll version 6.0 with a sendmail.dll version 5.5. You can read more about it at the following two links;

Fix bug in IE 6.0 sendmail.dll file

Sendmail.dll Fix After clicking on this link scroll down and read the sections under Sendmail.dll Fix and SendMail.dll - XP Fix Mail.

In reading these articles you will see that they state that a copy of the Sendmail.dll version 5.5 is located in your Windows/System folder. Though this may have been the case for them the file was not located on my system so I downloaded a zip file that contains the dll file from the following link;

XPFixMail After clicking on this link scroll down to "Annoyed with Windows XP mail quirks? "

You might want to take a look in your Windows/System folder first to see if you have this file. You can check to see if it is the correct version by right clicking on the file, selecting Properties from the pop-up menu, click on the Version Tab and then click on File Version. The correct version should read 5.50.4522.1800

Now open Windows Explorer and click on Tools|Folder Options|View and remove the check-marks from "Do Not Show Hidden Files and Folders" and also from "Hide Protected Operating System Files ".

Then navigate to the Windows/System32 folder, find the version 6.00.2600.0000 sendmail.dll file and rename it. You will also need to navigate to the Windows/System32/dllcache folder, find the sendmail.dll file and rename it. In doing this I renamed the files sendmailOLD.dll.

If the version 5.5 file was in your system folder simply copy it to the two locations list above. If the version 5.5 file was not on your system open the zip file that you downloaded. In the contents of the zip folder you see a file named "new_sendmail.dll. Copy this file to your Windows/System folder, rename it to Sendmail.dll and then copy it to your Windows/System32 and Windows/System32/dllcache folders.

Then click on Tools|Folder Options|View and replace the check-marks in "Do Not Show Hidden Files and Folders" and "Hide Protected Operating System Files ".

Restart IE if it was open and Bingo, it will now allow a link to be added to the body of a message by clicking on File|Send|Link By E-Mail, just like it used to.

And in case you're wondering, Yes you could just install the zip file that I directed you to and let it do the work for you, but I don't like a program making changes to my system files if I can help it. At least this way I know exactly what was changed in the event I ever want to put it back.

HTH

 

Thanks for that posting Rod!

 

Oops to the second Smilie! I didn't realize it was animated. ha

 

Mebanne:

Your welcome, glad to be of help.