I need to create an email link as part of an HTML page that will open an Outlook email. It's working up to a point.
When I click it, it works and shows a drop down with my email or the group email that I use. One of my users also has multiple addresses and it's giving her an error. Here is what is working for me and a few other users:
Generate Email
When she clicks the link above, she is getting a blue screen from Outlook that says "Choose which account to send the email from" with a cancel button. Now, I'm guessing that the issue is her Outlook settings, but is there something I can do to work around them?
Any ideas how to fix that? I tried adding a from= in the tag, but that's not working.
Her other option is to contact IT of course, but there may be other users who have this same issue, so I'd like to fix it programmatically if possible. And, it's corporate email, so some configurations can't be changed by the user but IT can do it, or just can't be changed at all.
Thanks!
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We are sending HTML emails from Microsoft365 to our clients and these emails contain a hyperlink to an item in a Sharepoint list in one of our Sharepoint sites.
I have only tested this in GMail, not sure whether the issue is only isolated here or on other email clients as well. When clicking the link in GMail, the below "Suspicious Link" popup message appears. Clicking 'Proceed' works, and brings the client to wherever he needs to be.
But we would like to avoid this popup message altogether.
The URL is in this format:
https://xyz.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/Lists/listname/EditForm.aspx?ID=123
I have tried 2 variants, and both are having the same issue:
{theURLagain}
and
Link to our Sharepoint
Anyone has an idea how we need to write the HTML to prevent this? Or is it not related to how the HTML is written?
Thanks!
The following thread is discussing the same question, I hope this may help
https://support.google.com/mail/thread/4242603?hl=en&msgid=8208054
Answer extracted from the thread:
This solved the problem for me:
Go to postmaster.google.com.
On the bottom-right, click the + button.
In the box that pops up, enter your authentication domain.
Next, prove that you own the domain by adding a DNS TXT or a DNS CNAME record.
After I completed that, I stopped getting that 'untrusted' message within a few minutes.
I am wondering how I can place a small form/questionnaire inside a marketing email that I am sending out? With no php or javascript available I am wondering if there are ways this can be done.
Having tried this myself, allow me to share my experience.
There is nothing stopping you from actually making an HTML Form inside an e-mail, but there are many e-mail clients out there. Some of them block "interactive" HTML, in particular, buttons. And you need a submit button to send your data.
In my job, we have implemented a new feature that allowed users to sign confidential documents by clicking a button on their e-mail. The email had a simple HTML form with a few elements which identified the document to be signed. By pressing a submit button, the form did a POST submit to the server, opened the user's browser and directed him to the web site to sign. This worked for a while, until we had a customer using it via Outlook Web Mail. They claimed the system generated e-mails did not have a button they could push. After investigating, we discovered what I mentioned above. We ended up changing the button for a hyperlink. The information identifying the document now is attached to that link, and the link has been styled to look like a button. Links play well inside e-mails. Buttons don't. Hope this helps.
I am creating a website and there is a page with people that are part of the company. Each person has an email that i want for the user to be able to get the email for the person that he/she want.
If we were in 2011 i would have used mailto: html tag. But really not so many people are using desktop email clients.
I thought about linking to a link so a new window would open in gmail and a new message would be created with recepient the pressed email. BUT not everyone uses gmail.
The only posible "solution" that i though that when the user clicks on the email this would be copied automatically in the clipboard. It would have the same result as doing CTRL & C at something. BUT this requires a lot of time and i dont want to get my hands dirty with javascript.
Is there any other way to do this ?
You should probably still use mailto:. mailto: is not intended for just desktops, it identifies a handler for the client. A mobile device would be able to recognize it just as well, and launch its preferred MTU.
With a lot of addons like smartaddon contact form and foxyform available out there, you could add them to your html code.
But, if you could use php, it to would just take few statements of code to set up the contact form on your own. Refer this post which explains clearly on how to set up your contact form using php.
I have an email page on my website with a form and tinyMCE and all that fancy stuff, but I also want to add a couple of links to the popular mail servers such as gmail, yahoo, and hotmail.
I've seen some links that go to the my Microsoft Office Outlook (which I never use), and I've also seen a gmail link that opens up gmail in a new tab with a form already open and a mailto: value already given. Just wondering how this is done if I, lets say, have a mailto: value to send and perhaps a subject and message.
Just to make it clear, I want three or four image links on my page, each one for a different mail server (gmail, yahoo...) and when clicked on, it opens a form partly filled out (a mailto:value and possibly a subject and/or message) fullscreen. Thanks.
It's not going to be easy, as you'll have to integrate with each one of these services. How about going at it a different way? For GMail (at least on Chrome) you can figure the web app as the handler for your mailto: links. With that, you can create a link that opens GMail, optionally with subject and body filled in. See RFC2368 for details, or try this link.
Most users don't have accounts on all of the web mail services you mentioned anyways, and using the mailto link allow the mail to the sent using the user's default e-mail client (may it be Outlook, or GMail) which most people prefer anyways.
So I have an html email that I am creating for my company for an email campaign we are going to be sending soon for an organization we represent. It contains 2 primary links, one to email a person at the organization we represent, and one to go to the landing page on the site of the organization. The landing page link works fine, the mailto: link does not when the email is viewed from Hotmail. It works on other clients besides Hotmail including Gmail and Outlook.
This is not because the computer which I am testing on does not have an email client installed. It has Outlook 2010 installed and registered as the mailto application. When mailto links are clicked on other sites (not hotmail) they work great...outlook launches a new message window as it should and fills in the subject and email. When we went to test on Hotmail, it shows the mailto link in the status bar, but no action occurs when you click the link. It's as if the link was not a link at all.
This is the link we are trying to use: (edited slightly for privacy)
<div class="button">Email a Resident Advisor</div>
This is placed within an html table cell. It has some basic css styling applied (all embedded in the html email itself). The button class is just designed to make the link stand out in the email...give it a red border and bold the link.
To be much more clear:
Works:
Gmail - IE9, Chrome, Firefox
Outlook - worked.
Does not work:
Hotmail - All browsers tried
The email was sent using the preview function of CampaignMonitor (handled by our QA guy, I don't have access to it as I'm rather new to the company).
I just need to figure out a way to make this work. Thanks in advance.
Two other programmer and I spent 2 days dealing with this problem earlier this week. I don't have the relevant links handy, but the long and short of the story is that this is a known issue and currently unresolved.
mailto: links will under no circumstance, work in Hotmail, they are removed or something.
We ultimately ended up adding copy instructing recipients to email foo#mail.com in lieu of clicking the link.
Here's a possible solution I found at http://windowsxp.mvps.org/hmposturl.htm that I modified for my purposes. It would require sending unique creative with a custom link to only your Hotmail recipients but it seems to work for me. Here's the href string I used:
http://www.hotmail.msn.com/secure/start?action=compose&to=email#domain.com&subject=My Subject Line&body=Email Body
This is a common problem with most webmail based systems. mailto: doesn't invoke them. Google mailto hotmail and you will find answers for Windows and for specific browsers. I think this will set it up for you
http://email.about.com/od/windowslivehotmailtips/qt/How_to_Make_Windows_Live_Hotmail_Your_Default_Email_Program.htm
Just add target='_blank'...use the 'a' html tag as...
<a href='mailto:Your MAILTO ID' target='_blank'>SOME Support</a>
This works in hotmail client, but it launch new browser instance additionally.
Known problem, I can confirm, is not working on Hotmail web mail only, rest of them work fine, we had the same problem here and we give up trying.
If you really really want that the only way is to use JavaScript, onClick change window location but that introduces a new dependency: JavaScript.