This sounds more like a problem with the mail client than Perl. You might be forming the hyperlink wrong, but I doubt it. For what it's worth, the correct form is 
<a href="URL">text to display</a>

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Also, if you just include the bare URL, most mail clients will linkify it for you.

Just re-read your post and I don't think Windows style network path names (\\server\share\blah\foo) are supported in HTML hyperlinks.

Update If you map a drive (say, Q) to the share on network where the log files are located, I am pretty sure you can make valid HTML hyperlinks like this 

<a href="file:///Q|/path/to/log/file.log">log</a>

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In reply to Re: PERL, Email and Hyperlinks by The Mad Hatter
in thread PERL, Email and Hyperlinks by Goldwing

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