Providing a youtube link in an email to a friend - how do you do it?

[CraigRevelPan]

I have tried all sorts of combos and tricks (well, as many as I know..) and I can't get the direct link to work, so all she has to do is click on the link. is this at all possible? I know we do it on MN but this is different. I am on a btinternet mail thing and using mozilla if that makes any difference whatsoever.

thanks.

Well what I do is start the email,open a new window with the youtube item,click on the header,go to "edit" scroll down and click on "copy" then go back to email,click at end of text and then go to "edit" again and click on "paste". hope that works!

Should have added that when you see it in the email it doesn't look as though you can just click on it,but when you send it,it will.Chack on the "sent" email to double check,but in mine the link is then blue.

right. Will practice this...

no. It just remains in the full address form - Isent it to my work address and then when I checked what had been sent it still showed it all, in the cut n' paste form.

If you put the link in 'greater than' 'less than' does it make a difference - eg

That is meant to work for many things. Alternatively, you could create a free Google Mail account and use that to send the link. It would also mean that in a year or 3 if you choose to switch ISP, you won't be reliant on a btinternet mail address (and be over a barrel to pay them every month just for the e-mail account to keep working).

A friend said he first was asked for a pound a month when he moved to TalkTalk from BT, but later it went up to 4.50 a month. That's daylight robbery in my book. One of my clients has her domain hosted for under a tenner a year with me, and gets her mail sent on to her GMail account, so she has all the benefits of a big mailbox, can use that mail account when she is in an internet cafe or visiting her sister for a week or fortnight and yet it has her 'work' mail address (info@ her-BandB-business.co.uk) when she sends anything.

Sorry - the link was copied off another thread (about 'dogging') !

dogging...ahem. Will give it a go...cheers.

I mean the link thing....

Squire! - signed up to gmail - the link was delivered effortlessly. Thank you v. much,and to you to hellymelly.

and the new world of gmail opens before me..

Glad it worked for you. Have been using GMail for at least 5 years now (at least 15000 messages in just one of my 5/6 GMail accounts) but have been sending web links to clients for years.

Must be over 10 years since I last printed an invoice, I just put them online and leave it for my client to decide if they want to print it... their paper, their ink, no postage costs for me, and "delivery" of the invoice is the same day (+ hour, usually). Once I get to a significant number of invoices, I may need to start making CDs of batches collected together to provide them as PDFs, if required, for VAT/tax purposes.

Of course getting the payment isn't always so straightforward but now with online banking available to individuals and firms, I have all but one client paying direct into my bank with varying speed (10 minutes to 3/4 days depending on which bank they use when sending to my HSBC account).

Gmail is great. Bit of a pain when it goes offline though - which has happened. Fortunately that does not happen often.

You can get it to forward mail elsewhere too.

Alternatively for a business, it is not that difficult or expensive to have mail sent to multiple accounts, some free, some paid, if one wants, so whether one needs IMAP access or browser access, or to use GMail as a way to just keep an archive of all incoming / outgoing mail, most things are possible.

One client uses a backup MX service (costing under a tenner a year) so if the server used first for incoming mail (which forwards it to multiple destinations) is down, the backup will (a) hold it for up to 5 days and if the primary server comes back online, starts pumping that with the 'held' mail, and (b) allows web access to inspect the queue of held messages, and inspect individual messages.

I've used several paid for and free mail services to allow for the flexibility different clients need, whether they have their own mail server in their office or are just using internet servers on a rental basis, and collecting mail on desktops/ laptops/ Blackberry/other phones, or checking and sending mail via a web browser wherever they go...