Yep, it is done when the client renders the message for display.  FWIW,
Lotus Notes 8.5 also rendered the first and third as links, but not the
second.  Ideally, it should be www.<something>.<something> to detect it as
a link, rather than just "www." with nothing after it.

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Marty  wrote on 09/17/2009 05:08:28 PM:

>     And I think the clients do that at READ time. So it will
> vary by reader client. If you look at the mail source it will
> just be plain text. For example, I tried:
>
> Testing http://google.com as a link with http.
>
> And google.com without the http prefix.
>
> Finally, www.google.com just to compare.
>
> and when I read the message with Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 the
> first and third of the three displayed as a link but not
> the middle one. So apparently Thunderbird (at least) looks
> for http:// and www. as triggers...  ;-)  marty

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