Question

We frequently have e-mails that go out with a link to a twiki page. The problem is that the e-mail is breaking the link into two lines (due to the length of the url). When the e-mail recipient clicks on the link they are prompted to enter their twiki user name and password. I have looked at other sites that seem to handle this problem well. How can I remedy this problem.

Environment

-- LindaCapetilloCunliffe - 21 Feb 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

Use TinyURL.

There is a plugin available for FireFox that takes care of the conversion

-- AntonAylward - 22 Feb 2006

I am not sure, Anton might be referring to http://www.roundtwo.com/product/tinyurl

Breaking apart long URLs is an Outlook "feature", most other mail clients leave long URLs alone. Ask your IT department to switch to a better mail client such as Thunderbird

See ShorterUrlCookbook and ShorterURLs.

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Feb 2006