Highlighted text in emails

[Colchemy]

As you will see, text has been highlighted in blue in the Samsung email app. Please note: the highlighting was not done by the sender of the email.

It looks like an invitation to click on the highlighted text, but when I do, my tablet comes up with an Open with... screen, with inappropriate apps like Google Earth offered. Clearly a fault, and the highlighting is annoying. Please fix.

[nowdeleted]

A full stop and no spaces will look like a Web link ..

[Rob99 · Accepted solution]

This will happen with most phones or computers. Numbers in a block of text, or dates, will be interpreted as links.

[Colchemy]

I understand a block of text can be a link. But not a date! I still think that is a fault, and would like to see it corrected in updates to Samsung Mail.

[Rob99]

A date will usually be interpreted as a calender entry, and will open your calender program when clicked on. Hope this helps.

[Colchemy]

Thanks, Rob, but no, it doesn't help at all. I've got no reason to use my calendar for anything in the past, such as the highlighted dates in the email I attached. I will just have to look at other email clients to see if they are free of the problem.

[Colchemy]

I checked the same email with the Gmail app and it does not highlight dates. So I shall be using that app in future for emails.