I thought I had an idea. I thought that if you are sending your messages out in "plain text" rather than "rich text" maybe the links turn into "plain text" when you send them. However, I just set my format to plain text and sent myself an email containing a url. It came back as a url, not plain text. Now I wonder why that is so?!? If I have my format set to plain text why does.......... Hooo booy, I just went from providing an answer to making another question..... J.