Apple Mail - Remove Link / from address

[jameskachan]

Hello.

I have my contact info set to apply via a signature in Apple Mail. That's easy enough.

However, I would like my email address to NOT display as a link when it is sent out.

i have it formated to be a specific text and colour, and when i compose the email it shows up as i want it to be, however when i send the email it converts my james@jameskachan.com to show up in blue as a link. I need mail to send the email out with the address Not displaying as a link since most every mail program web or application based will change the colour format of a written email address into a link.

How can I maintain the formating and remove the link from the address while still writing the address out?

ps. if the answer to this is HTML based emails, please be specific as i have not done that before and dont know how, also, if so, please direct how i can then apply the HTML settings for use with automated signatures.

Thank you Kindly.


James
416.460.8170
james@jameskachan.com

 

[fryke]

As long as you _don't_ go HTML in format, you can't really define it, as the client will look for E-Mail addresses automatically and automatically transform them to links. It's a service, not a bug, of most E-Mail clients.
If you go HTML (which is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad thing for E-Mail), you simply _don't_ make your address a link. I'm not sure whether the client will still automatically make it a link, though. Can't control that, anyway.

The best thing to do, btw., is to use Plain Text instead of *ANY* formatted format (RTF, HTML) for three reasons:

1.) Plain text is *always* more user-friendly, because you as the _receiver_ define how it looks by setting the font and size in your client.

2.) Plain text messages can be read by _all_ clients including command line mail readers, small devices etc.

3.) Plain text version of a mail message is _always_ smaller than RTF or HTML.

 

[Giaguara]

Having a space before and after the @ would enable to keep the color while the majority of the users would be still smart enough to understand how to recompile the email address.

Or having your email info displayed as username at domain.com.