johnmike

I entered <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> as suggested above into the URI: under Links.

WordPress converted the URI: to

http: // & l t ;ahref =mailto : emailaddressgmail . com & amp; gt; emailaddressgmail . com &# 38; lt ;/ a & gt;

“extra spaces added”
Is there some built in functionality that prevents email addresses from being used as links?

This used to work fine under WordPress 1.5 but has since stopped working ater I updated to 2.05.

Any reason why wordpress would automatically take out the @ symbol?

yes, I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. I’m still learing the correct terminology.