Windows Live Mail 2012 – Missing links while copying links into email draft

Hey there,

since a few days the problem appears, that I'm opening a new mail-window in Windows Live Mail, pasting a copied link out of a browser-site or other email-draft. After I paste the link or a mail-to-link into the window, the link disappears and only the text is standing there.

Checking and comparing the source code, original is correct:

<a href="mailto:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***">*** Email address is removed for privacy ***</a><br />
<a href="http://www.test.eu">www.test.eu</a>

And the HTML-result in the new window is:

<a style="href: &quot;mailto:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***&quot;">*** Email address is removed for privacy ***</a><br />
<a style="href: &quot;http://www.test.eu&quot;">www.test.eu</a>

So Windows Live Mail puts the link automatically into a wrong style-tag. Only manually adding the link by right-click resolves the problem, a mail-to-reference is even in this way not possible.

I even installed the latest update from Live Mail 2011 to 2012. I tried to use UTF-8 or West-European Encoding. I searched for settings in the options. Of cause I'm drafting the mail in HTML-Mode. I scanned for viruses and malware. Nothing. Any solution?

Regards,
Uwe Martens