I doing a newsletter where I need to pass 2 variables, token and email address to the URL to another website. The problem is that Campaign Monitor makes the URL it into the ShortURL which doesn't work in my situation.
This is how the URL should look like
http://www.example.com/newsletter/index.cfm?token=yes&email=[email]
This is how my Email Link Looks like
<a style="color:#263269;font-size:30px; font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" href="http://www.example.com/newsletter/index.cfm?token=yes&email=[email]">YES</a>
Please advise me if theirs any alternative solutions for this issue. I cannot seem to find any solutions on the their official website.
Have you tried passing the values from the form and set action to get.
edit: try using ascii value of ampersand & (amp should be lowercase)
try removing the "&" and adding "&"
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I am using the current link in my email.
*|baseUrl|*/verifyEmail?token=*|token|*
This however causes one or two people to get strange links from the email and get not found, usually based on some random email providers. E.g. - if I use a 10 minute mail (10minutemail.com), I get the following:
https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/www.mywebsite.com/verifyEmail?token=b32fee82da59e7b4085269faca35ec7025122876
Correct link: www.mywebsite.com/verifyEmail?token=b32fee82da59e7b4085269faca35ec7025122876
Assuming this is due to baseUrl? Am I doing something fundamentally wrong when setting up my email link?
You need to include http:// or https:// with your baseUrl. Otherwise the email client may prepend a default base address instead of 'just' the missing protocol, especially if it is a webmail client.
I have a url in one of my emails for twitter share that looks like:
http://twitter.com/share?text=Praneeta%27s%20test&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydomain.com%3Fparam1%3D303%26param2%3Dtest&related=praneeta&via=Praneeta
However SendGrid converts only the part before the ' (encoded as %27)
So the url I have in the emails sent is broken and looks like
http://email.mydomain.com/wf/click?upn=<long_encoded_key>%27s%27s%20test&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydomain.com%3Fparam1%3D303%26param2%3Dtest&related=praneeta&via=Praneeta
Is there a work around for this?
note: If I copy the email html and send it to myself via putsmail, it works fine, it breaks only when it goes via Sendgrid.
I just sent the link you posted through my own SendGrid account and it looks like it was properly encoded. I wonder if this was a temporary issue? What happens if you try sending that link again?
Just a heads up on this issue incase if people stumble on this. The method should be escape for example:
CGI::escape('\'')
Sorry about the provocative subject but I could not think of a better word than "hack" to describe what I would like to do!
On my site, I provide links to other sites and on request by the user, display a page from the site in a frame or pop up window. Frequently these displayed pages have a mailto-tag.
I have found it extremely annoying that clicking the mailto link starts off my outlook which I no longer use but retain it as an installed program on my machine.
What I would like to do is:
1) Pick up the subject and email address part of the mailto tag.
2) Pop up an HTML form where the email address and the subject is prefilled.
3) Send the email message through my site's mailserver instead of through outlook or any other mail client.
Is there a way to do this?
Thank you in advance - and once again apologies for the provocative subject line!
Cheers!
Uttam
Try it using javascript.
With using a framework like jQuery its easy so find such tags inside a frame or popup window.
You can try it by something like this:
var allATags = $('myFrameId').find('a');
$(allATags).each(function(index, element){
var href = $(element).attr('href');
//here you shall try to find out if there a mailto Link or a normal link, e.g. using regular expression or indexOf()
[...]
if (isMailToLink){
//split the href String at the signs '&' with which the subject, mail, etc is splitted and removing the mailto, putting all in own variables
[...]
$(element).attr('href', 'javascript:void(0);');
$(element).click(function(){
showMyMailForm(toMail, mailSubject, mailBody);
});
}
});
On opening a document in a frame or a popup wait for the document being loaded and then run your code to replace all existing mailto-links on that document with your mailform-mailer.
The code is just a way trying to inspire, no working code.
Users can set their default email client, here are a couple of links that may be helpful:
Firefox
Chrome
Internet Explorer
Of course this is controlled by the user, so it will help you personally, but not force others to use a specific program.
You could easily pass url parameters onto your contact landing page/email form instead of a mailto link, something like a href="http://landingpage.com/index.php?email=you#you.com&subject=hello" could be used to pre-fill generic contact/email form fields.
I am developing in SharePoint and I would like to prepare a mailto command but I would like to send two values to the email and not just one. Normally in html the command works
Email
But in SharePoint I seem to only be able to send the first section after the email#here.com?. Depending on what I position first, I sometimes get the #Body field to go through or the #Title to go through. It appears that for some reason the "&" isn't accepted. I also tried %26 in the place of & with no result.
What is the best method to get both (body and subject) to go through to the mail-client?
Thank you in advance for your time, any guidance will be greatly appeciated
is there anyway that I can use "mailto" with empty recipient? I only want to supply the subject and the message body and then the user can write the to addresses on mail. I tried writing only a space but it didn't work.
This should do, I tested it.
mailto:?subject=your%20subject&body=your%20body
And as HTML with correct escaping of the ampersand:
test
This should work..
test
I tried the accepted answer but it failed to launch an email when using Chrome. Using a %20 instead of a space worked though:
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