BACKGROUND:
Sitefinity CMS for my specific problem, but could be general too.
I have an email message which has an unsubscribe link in it like this:
To Unsubscribe: Click or copy paste the following link in your browser.
https://www.domain.com/unsubscribe?mailingList={|MailingList.Title|}&SubscriptionEmail={|Subscriber.Email|}
{|MailingList.Title|} and {|Subscriber.Email|} are sitefinity CMS subscriber fields. When I send out an email these two fields resolve to their respective values. Hence, the URL I get in an email is as following for example.
https://www.domain.com/unsubscribe?mailingList=mymailingList&subscriptionEmail=abc#xyz.com
The user can click on it and unsubscribe from the mailing list.
My Problem:
If the mailing list name has a space in it, the link that appears on the email is broken at the first occurance of the space(link the link shown below breaks immediately =my) and hence clicking it is like clicking a invalid URL.
https://www.domain.com/unsubscribe?mailingList=my mailing List&subscriptionEmail=abc#xyz.com
I dont understand why the space in the URL doesnt resolve to a %20.
My Trial:
I changed the order of the querystrings to see if it works(mailinglist was the last string originally, I put it in the middle)
I am fine if the URL does not get resolved into a link at all, just forcing the users to copy paste the entire URL. But, I was not able to do it as well.
I have read in microsoft forums that OUTLOOK resolves the spacing issue, when the URL is surrounded by < and > like this :
URL here:
But the URL doesnt even show up in the email just like it is not showing up here above this line.
Tested on OUTLOOK, GMAIL, YAHOOMAIL, MICROSOFT MAIL. The link is broken in all email clients.
Any suggestions on what is the best solution for this?
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I am trying to create a Power Automate flow that automatically syncs to Dropbox a file contained at a URL link in emails.
The email is always from the same email address, let's say: "example#example.com"
The URL link always has the same hyperlinked text: "Link to Signed Affidavit with Original Document Attached"
The URL link itself is dynamic and looks something like this (example): http://www.example.net/asp/showattachment.aspx?BlobID=aso23-gjin42-skgn34-23632
Each such email only contains one such link.
When the link is clicked, it goes to a PDF file in the webrowser. The link is not redirected to a different link.
I'd like this to trigger every time such an email is received. I'd like this to operate in the cloud without any desktop interaction.
Thanks!
I solved this myself.
In the "Compose" section, you need to parse out the URL from the email body using your own code. Below is what I used for my specific usage case. For my specific situation, I knew the URL would always be the same number of characters. If the URL length varies between emails, you'll need a more complex parse.
substring(outputs('Html_to_text')?['body'],add(58,indexof(outputs('Html_to_text')?['body'],'Link to Signed Affidavit')),95)
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 got a confluence 3.5 installation (but I am fine too, if you tell me there is such an option in 4.2). There is a share button that let you email a page to a bunch of recipients. Sadly all recipients are entered as BCC (or the email task is executed one time for every recipient). Problem: I want to let the recipients know to whom the page has been shared too.
I cannot believe that I could not find anyhting about that topic (just that description: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/E-mailing+a+Page). So, if this is a silly question for you confluence cracks out there, I am sorry, but happy, if you leave me a hint.
Thank you!
Yep, this was added in Confluence 4.2 and it's really handy!
Now the email you get shows an 'Also shared with' section that has the name and avatar of everyone else.
Objective
Send out a Magento transactional email with a link back to the website with a variable on the end of the url.
Process
I pass a variable into Magento’s transactional email called link and display it using the following code in the email template.
<p>link = {{var link}}</p>
click here
Problem
The link is displayed correctly in the p tags e.g.
http://www.mysite.com/?param=1
However when i move the mouse over a tag i get the following link which prevents the link in the email from working:
x-msg://12/“http://www.mysite.com/?param=1”
Notes
I have tried this in Mac Mail and Hotmail and get the same result.
The url i am passing into the email needs to be dynamic and cannot be hard coded.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Turns out I had a funny double quote around the link.
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