There is an editor out there that specifically advertises having the ability to use absolute urls (the link's on my other computer - I'll try to remember to post it) as a web.config setting. We've considered purchasing it but a license was around $400. We've already purchased Telerik for Mac compliance, so we're not anxious to spend more money yet.

For us it's only an issue when it comes to sending out newsletters. The text editor re-writes any local urls (that point to pages on your website) and leaves non-local urls unchanged. So if you send out a newsletter with a link back to a page on your site, the link doesn't work for the email recipient. It also messes up any images in the newsletter you send out.

Again - out short term fix to this is to switch over to the html view before clicking send and strip out all the wwws.

The flip side is that it frequently saves our bacon with it's behavior on the rest of the site. I usally set up my clients on a dummy url (clientname.dallasnewmedia.com or whatever) and they can build away without issue when it comes time to go live with the actual domain name.

I've also had plenty of clients come back after the fact and say "we want this url to do this too" and the sites roll with it really well (non of ours are the corporate intranet IP style Nina was referrinig to).

So if I had my say I would leave it at least close to the way it is for everything except the newsletter (which is somewhat non-functional with the current behavior).

Nina - if you're reading this... some suggestions for the core.
 
- break the newsletter function out into a project/module so that non-admins on a site can be given rights to send out bulk mail
- In that new project give DNN a true can-spam compliant "click here to unsubscribe"
- Solve the relative url issue (maybe a server side re-write) on just the bulk mail module
- Give it some constant-contact style features like email tracking, html templates, and tokens for usernames and properties

DNN has a great tradition now of "dogfooding" the portal. The one thing we don't dogfood is the bulk mail tool. I think it would be awesome if that became a goal in the future. This is an amazing community portal without solid bulk mailer functionality. 

Just friendly suggestions - no harsh criticism intended. As always, thanks to the team for an amazing product.

Thank you so much for posting this. Now all we need to do is expose this property in the provider and then pass in the value on the FreeTextBox  instance on the bulk mailer tool - then all will be well (almost...).

Thanks again.