We are sending html emails through amazon ses. It appears that gmail is altering the href tag and making it unusable. It almost looks like it's putting tracking information there instead of the original link. Below is what we are sending to ses and what we see in the client's email. It is happening for all href tags in the email, but not every email going to gmail.
Sending to ses:
<a ses:no-track href="http://www.Google.com">www.Google.com</a>
Client email:
<a href="http://esfsecev-ty3014" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://esfsecev-ty3014&source=gmail&ust=1541799752348000&usg=AFQjCNHRj6rzLaQFMfQQPtoDE_Q9RTTFQQ">
www.GoSurvey.com</a>
Thanks in advance!
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Yahoo is removing the href attribute from the <a> elements from emails that we send for registration approval or password reset.
We are using Sendgrid web api to send mails using nodemailer-sendgrid-transport module.
After googling possible answers, I am certain that:
We are using complete urls (starting with https:// at the start of the url).
We have added target="_blank" attribute to our <a> elements.
Our emails don't go in to spam. So it's not related with disabling links in spam issue.
However these didn't solve our problem.
Is there any way to prevent yahoo from disabling links by removing href attribute?
Issue is not occurring when on other mail providers such as gmail etc.
Given that the email is NOT in the SPAM folder, then adding rel="nofollow" to your <a> tags and also being sure to use the full url (including the http or https) should fix the issue.
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.myurl.com">Some Text</a>
When sending an HTML e-mail, is there any sense in using the <title> tag? In the PHP Manual, for instance, they use such a tag in their main sample code. However, I see no reason why an e-mail client would use this title and not the Subject from the e-mail. Is there any reason to set this tag?
I've been looking into this myself as I'm writing a PHP mailing list manager script that uses the sendmail() function.
The script allows the admin to create and send multiform emails (both text and html versions).
After much testing I have found that some email servers appear to have issues with the title tag (<title></title>).
I created a test email and sent it to 5 of my email address, my #blueyonder.co.uk email failed to arrive but the 4 others had no problems.
After a process of elimination it turned out that the #blueyonder.co.uk mail servers did not like the title tags in the html part of the email message, when I removed the tag the email arrived no probs.
Very strange!
The only use I would see is that some clients, like Outlook, allow you to view an email in a browser for better rendering. It would then be a plus to have the html title tag set.
(Old question, I know ;) )
My experience is that some mail clients will display the <title> tag in their email preview and some won't. Some clients preview will be "Subject + <title> + Preheader" and some will only be "Subject + preheader", so that creates an inconsistent experience.
Because of that, I found it's better to only use a preheader.
For completion's sake, the "Preheader" is a hidden text form the body that is only used in the preview, for example, something like...
<div style="display: none; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">
Insert hidden preheader text here
</div>
Here's an email template with HTML.
And I tried to copy it in web browswer and paste in Outlook 2007.
But it looks different because border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" doesn't work in email.
For the worse, it varies from the each email system(Outlook, Gmail, hanmail...).
Is there any way to work HTML perfectly in every email system?
Thanks, always.
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This is what it should be.
And this is from DAUM Hanmail,
and Gmail.
You see, Html Email has its pros and cons, and these might even vary with the email client too.
Here are some known limitations (some might nolonger be true though):
Large email bodies may not be sent to NotifyLink devices as HTML when Smart Retrieval is enabled (NotifyLink Enterprise Server: Contol Option Rules) or the body size is set to a limit that does not accommodate the email body size. The email will sent in plain text.
Forwarding an HTML email from the device results in the forwarded email showing the original message twice, once in plain text and once in HTML format, when viewed on Oracle Beehive v1.5.x, Scalix, Sun, and Zimbra mail servers.
Using the Retrieve or Retrieve All options will not retrieve a full HTML picture email. This may be due to a bug with the BlackBerry OS v5.0.
An HTML message viewed on the device that includes a phone number will not allow the phone number to be selected for dialing.
The bodies of messages sent using ActiveSync's SmartForward or SmartReply commands will always be in plain text format.
Body text that has been copied and pasted from a MS Word document into emails sent to the device in HTML format are cut off when the email has been sent from a Kerio mail server.
Read more here...
How to Code Html Email correctly
And More Here...
I am afraid that not all email clients render HTML emails in the same way. Even between different version of Microsoft Outlook there are several differences.
You may find interesting the next article
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Hope this helps.
I want to send an email in HTML to a user from browser client i.e send mail from Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
I paste the HTML I want to send in the text area, but the HTML is not getting rendered when I receive it.
HTML emails need a content-type: text/html header otherwise they are assumed to be plain text. You do not mention what language you are using, but if you are using PHP, you can use PHP Mailer to make sending HTML emails a little easier.
<textarea> tag is for user input. Users can't insert any data in mails, so this tag won't be rendered. If you just showing the information, use tag <p> instead.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/send-html-email/19672/
Be careful with how you use this though, GMail could very well blacklist you if your recipient list is too long. I use it all the time for tests.
We've got some HTML emails that get sent out that show email addresses our service has blocked. When viewing the email in Outlook (and presumably in other clients as well) these plain-text email addresses get turned into clickable links that would compose a new message to this address when clicked.
Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Perhaps a meta tag with a flag that would prevent Outlook from converting these into clickable links?
Most email clients strip out META tags, Javascript, and other types of code not necessary for email. Outlook is going to do what it wants with your email, so what you may want to do is wrap the addresses with your own anchor tag and use a blank HREF. Then, style the link to look like the rest of your text.
I think a better answer is to formulate anything that you think a mail client might try to generate a link for in a way that breaks up the string a bit like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7625887/470749