Mozilla Thunderbird - Disable Automatic Link Parsing

[X96 Web Design]

I was wondering if there's a way to stop Mozilla Thunderbird from wrapping <A> tags around everything that starts with http://. Because I inserted some CSS, and it parsed all image URLs as links - screwing up the CSS and making it render incorrectly...

I couldn't find anything in the Preferences dialogue (but I may have missed a tab/checkbox).

Does anyone know if this can be done? I need to turn off this feature...

Thanks,
X96

[bluewalrus]

This is all I've seen

From: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_generated_automatically

Suppressing automatically-generated links

It is possible to take some steps to suppress automatically-generated links, but you cannot completely suppress them.
Sending messages

When you write an HTML message, you can suppress automatically-generated links. Select the text that Thunderbird normally linkifies. Choose Insert – HTML... In the HTML editor, type anchor tags around the text. For example, if you type this but you do not want Thunderbird to linkify it:

someone@example.org

In the HTML editor, change it to:

<a>someone@example.org</a>

If there is already an anchor tag with attributes (class and href, typically), then remove the attributes to leave the tag looking like the example above.

Note: People who receive your message might still see a link, if they use mail clients that linkify when they display messages. For example, Thunderbird users will probably see a link if they choose: View – Message Body As – Plain Text

[X96 Web Design]

I guess I can't insert CSS with images... I can't wrap an <A> tag around a URL in CSS...

Oh well... I can still send good 'ol courier new plain-text messages!

Cheers,
X96

[zoebass]

Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt. As a second line of defense, Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message.
Thunderbird’s security and privacy measures ensure that your communications and identity remain safe.
For security features the disable automatic link parsing may be turn on.

[robertblake]

Very helpful forum. I never thought that thunderbird is used to protect us from email scams and others. It seems that this is one of the MUST installed applications.

[Future Technology Service]

I have read you problem with Mozilla tagging every link you have.. I have some few questions for you and this may able us to find a possible solution to you problem. My first question is when do this happen? I mean does it happen very time you start using the browser? Please send me the tags so I can test it myself.