Is there a way to turn off or disable brackets (< >) being placed around hyperlinks pasted into the body of a draft email? This is causing problems. It should be a user option.
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Can you elaborate? How is this causing problems?
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It’s adding unnecessary characters to links I paste into emails. Some recipients complain that the links are not clickable and/or other issues.
But that’s not the point. An email client should not alter something pasted into the body of the text. If a user needs or wants such a thing, it should be a selectable option in the settings. In the interim I may have to roll back to the previous version to get rid of this.
Request: Going forward can you implement this as a selectable option in the settings?
https://domain.example/. (including the dot at the end) is a valid URL and could be what the author of an email wanted to communicate to the recipient. Yet it’s much more likely that the URL is https://domain.example/ and the dot just ends the sentence. Still, link detection algorithms can’t know and whatever interpretation they pick there’s a chance it’s wrong. Surrounding a URL with angle brackets (that are invalid characters inside a URL) easily avoids the ambiguity. It’s either <https://domain.example/.> or <https://domain.example/>.
Using angle brackets to surround links in emails is very common and should be supported by most software. If they don’t, I’d consider that to be a bug.
There’s a real cost to adding and maintaining a setting for every little behavior some users might not like. It’s very unlikely that we’ll be adding a setting for this particular behavior.
At some point in the future the app will hopefully support styling text when composing a message. Then you’ll be able to tell the app which text should be a link. At that point we can change the app to only automatically add the angle brackets to URLs in the plain text part of an email.
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I consider arbitrarily altering something pasted by the user into the message section to be a bug. Especially if there’s no way in an app for a user to opt out of that behavior. Other mail clients don’t do this.