HTML mail (was: PHP contact manager)

[Greg Rundlett]

Something along the way is trying to automatically hyperlink
everything that looks like a URL, or an IP address.  That is just
plain obnoxious when you are trying to discuss network issues.

I have mostly used gmail as my mailer lately, and sometimes will copy
and paste content from various sources...maybe Konsole, or Thunderbird
before it goes into the browser.  I would expect that text/plain
versions should be exactly that, and not offer some 'intelligent
feature' of automatically changing what was typed.  This same sort of
thing annoys me in word processing where a dash gets changed into a
non-UTF character (the long dash) or quotes turn into 'smart quotes'
and you have to specifically turn off this behavior.

Testing 1,2,3
this is a url http://www.gnhlug.org (and you should have to copy that
text to use it)
this is an ip address 199.125.75.14 (and it too should not
automatically become a hyperlink)

If those two tests failed, then Gmail (or something in between) is
trying too hard to be intelligent.