Is there any way to disable link tracking for certain links when sending emails from Rails through sendgrid?
My recent search brought me here. I hope my late answer might help someone else in a similar situation.
Yes, there are ways:
(kind of a hack): Modify the links so that SendGrid does not accept the format(but still renderable in mail client), such as to omit http:// or to add spaces around = in the anchor tag. For example: Not Tracked
The official way: Add a clicktracking=off inside the anchor tag to tell SendGrid not to track it. For example: <a clicktracking=off href="http://sendgrid.com">Not Tracked</a>
You can now turn this on and off easily within SendGrid, see the docs. There is also an option to brand your tracking links with your own domain. This requires setting some DNS settings but means you have your own links in emails and they also get tracked.
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Is it possible to prevent AWS SES from adding awstrack.me link to all my email links?
Their documentation suggests that if I don't want a link tracked, I just have to add ses:no-track as a custom attribute, however, while this may prevent tracking, it still modifies the link.
Open and click is an optional and configurable field in SES.
You have the Configuration set which you include in the email(as header etc) and SES understand if you want to insert open and click link. If you don't want, yon can just go to Configuration set and remove the checkbox for Open and Click.
I use uBlock Origin, an browser extension, and it have blocked a link with "awstrack.me^". perhaps it can help you too
In checking an email that I am coding (a reply-type email that my server will send), I notice that the a tag hyperlinks in my code are not working in Outlook. They work elsewhere, but not Outlook.
I know very little about Microsoft products, but I can tell you that the place I'm seeing this is in the online outlook.com you view in a web browser.
The simplest link, such as this...
Click here
...is coming through like this in the rendered email:
[http:www.yahoo.com]Click here
AND, it is not a link. It's just text. It appears as though the program is disabling the links (possibly because it finds the email suspicious of phishing, even though I added the domain to my trusted emails)???
Anyone know what is happening or how I can work around this?
I don't see anything wrong with the code you've posted, but I do know that Outlook.com will do this to links when it doesn't recognize them as valid links to an external site. Look for hidden characters, "smart" quotes instead of plain quotes, etc. in the link.
You should put the target on the link.
Like this:
Click here
I want to embed an iframe inside an email that contains the 10 most recent chat messages. Is there a way to make this iframe dynamic so that it always shows the latest 10 chats regardless of when the email is opened? If the iframe is not the correct way to do this, is there a better way?
You can implement an iframe into the email - but your mail will be recognized as spam by many providers.
You should try to render your content dynamically into an image and implement that image into the email.
There kind of is a solution. It is using Dynamic CSS with a fallback of a Dynamic image to pull the information. It is not elegant really as for some clients (e.g. Outlook) this is not available at all and will only display initial information. It also utilizes a link for a style sheet which also severely limits which clients this will work in.
The fall back dynamic image is a bit more comprehensive in client support, but much harder to maintain as you will need to build something that programatically pulls the tweets (HTML webpage potentially) and then also have something that creates and hosts an image for the email to pull. This is not a short, simple thing to set up and may not be worth the required back end work for a simple email.
See this link for a bit more in-depth info on how this can be done for adding a live twitter feed into an email: https://litmus.com/blog/how-to-code-a-live-dynamic-twitter-feed-in-html-email
Since there was no accepted answer i thought i would give my input as well.
Litmus had done something similar for their live twitter feed in emails sometime ago.
The method i can think off is to create a PHP page which takes 10 images and makes it into 1. PHP can have a loop that checks for increments from a specific number and if it exists then add to that 1 image. When there is a new chat image added, PHP will disregard the last one and add the new in the loop.
For anyone reading this in 2022, this is possible with AMP.
Instead of an iframe, you can create a dynamic email easily.
check out amp.dev
Note: AMP is not supported by many email clients
All the email providers are placing zero pixel images at the end of the content for tracking opens. Is there any particular reason? For example:
<img src = "http://tracksamle.com/ssss/track.gif" width="0" height="0">
Someone may be able to explain to larger detail, but I'm guessing it is forcing the email client to fetch the image from said address (which I would guess is unique such that it can be cross linked to the intended receiver of the email).
By then, on server, you can determine if the email has indeed been opened, and the IP-address of the opening party.
How this interferes with spam filters and other in-transit email scanners, I do not know though.
Edit:
As #bartdude also mentions in comments, positioning at end imposes least inconvenience on load times for the reader, as by then rest of the email should already be loaded, albeit this depends on implementation of loading process.
Adding to the answer above, note that if someone opens an email and has the option to "load images" and they don't click the link to load them, it will not count as an open. This is true also for text only emails. So if someone is tracking opens, they will never be accurate because of this.
I'm adding social media buttons to my website. Facebook like, Twitter tweet etc buttons were very easy.
However I also need an email the page (or rather a link to the page) button. I have trawled the internet but cannot find a simple and good implementation.
Ideally I'd like to be able to copy some reliable code, and have the button look in the same style as the ones on this page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6920023/testbuttons.html
If anyone has done this before I would be very glad to hear from you :)
Thanks in advance.
Why not just use the AddThis service? You simply register, provide them with your website url and then select the social media / link mechanisms you would like to use on your site. At the end they provide you with a block of HTML code to drop into your site and low and behold, the buttons and appearance you selected will be present. You can also select mechanism such as pain old email when setting it up.
An example of it in place;
Here's the link: http://www.addthis.com/
As far as i know, you will have to use Mailto: apart from doing some deep Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail API integration. That's about as good as your going to get.
You can dynamically fill out subject, body, cc fields etc using javascript/php (or whatever you are using)