Hmm, so does anyone get this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/djmcnz/first.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/djmcnz/second.png
The first image is the last email in a conversation, the second image is the first email in the same conversation. In every conversation in my gmail, only the first message has live links... (e.g. the blue hyperlink, the purple coloured one can not be clicked on).
PITA!
Hehe, I thought this was obvious but maybe not:
Text in purple = quoted text from a previous email.
Links in quoted text / previous emails are not clickable. To click the link, open the email in the conversation that first had the link.
Yes, this can be annoying, but I just wanted to explain the behavior for people since it may not be obvious.
i've got djmcnz's issue almost in every mail i send form the Mail app on my Mac (and only in sent mails).. but i guess that is not related to the links.. in these mails there wasn't any link!..
as you can see it cuts out some paragraph of the mail, and i can't understand the sense of that!
it is really annoying since i can't read my mail from my phone!
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It's cut off because it's quoted text from a previous email. The Gmail app only shows the first
100 characters of a quoted passage to cut down on redundancy. There's no point in having the same passage over and over and over again in every single email of a thread. For long conversation emails, that would get extremely annoying fast. The creators of the Gmail app are going for a 'clean' interface, and rightly so.
If you want to see the full message, they're expecting you to look at the corresponding email in the conversation, since it's only a single click away:
Yes, it can be improved. And hopefully it will be in FroYo -- next month
Ideally, links in quoted passages
WOULD be clickable, and the length of quoted passages would be user-configurable (100 characters, 200, 500, etc). (Most likely, there's probably a feature request about these issues on the official Android developer site already anyway.)
[Edit]: Here are a few I found:
However, keep in mind: most other phones do not have threaded emails like we do. Imagine if every email in email chains/conversations were separate.
So to see previous replies you had to:
- exit the email
- scroll around
- find the date/time it was received
- open that corresponding email
- and hope it was the right one that you wanted.
This is how the iPhone operates, webOS etc, and various other phones.
Don't take threaded emails for granted
Learn to use them.
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