Both email addresses and website URLs can be turned into clickable links, which immediately open an email message or web page. While it’s possible to turn text or images into links manually, the Mozilla Thunderbird email client can automatically insert a hyperlinked email address or website into an email message.

What to Know

  • Links typed in Mozilla Thunderbird become clickable when you save or send the message. To add a hyperlink in Thunderbird, select Write > type your message, including email addresses or URLs > Send.

When you sign an email message with your name and contact info, you likely include an email address. If it’s hyperlinked, your recipient can click it to open a new email that’s addressed to you. Your email may also include references to other contacts’ email addresses, and automatically hyperlinking them would be handy and convenient for your recipient.

Thunderbird’s hyperlinking feature is particularly easy because you don’t have to do anything special. When you type an email address or website in Thunderbird, it looks like plain text in the composition window. It isn’t a different color and doesn’t appear to be a clickable link. However, if you save or send the message, the links become clickable automatically. Here’s how it works:

Similarly, when you reference a website URL, automatically hyperlinking it makes it easy for your email recipient to visit the site.

  • Open Thunderbird and select Write to compose a new email message.
  • Type your message, including any email addresses or URLs you need to convey.
  • These email addresses and URLs aren’t hyperlinked or in a different color. They appear as regular text.
  • Select Send to send your message.
  • Select the Sent folder to view the email you just sent. You’ll see that the email addresses and URLs in the message were automatically hyperlinked.
  • When the recipient opens the message in their email client, all emails and URLs are hyperlinked.

Open Thunderbird and select Write to compose a new email message.

Type your message, including any email addresses or URLs you need to convey.

These email addresses and URLs aren’t hyperlinked or in a different color. They appear as regular text.

Select Send to send your message.

Select the Sent folder to view the email you just sent. You’ll see that the email addresses and URLs in the message were automatically hyperlinked.

When the recipient opens the message in their email client, all emails and URLs are hyperlinked.

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