I am looking for a CSS/HTML workaround to prevent email clients such as Outlook and Apple Mail from auto-highlighting an email address in my HTML emails.
My markup is:
<p>To ensure that our messages are sent straight to your inbox and not your junk or bulk email folders please add crmpicco#crmpicco.co.uk to your address book</p>
and Outlook (and Apple Mail) presents this as this:
I have tried wrapping the email address in an <a> and setting text-decoration: none, but Outlook seems to ignore this (I haven't tested that with Apple Mail)
Is there a workaround for this?
There is no universal fix for this since different email clients handle email addresses in plain text differently. Although you are on the right track with wrapping the address in your own html since the client will not do it.
To the best of my knowledge, Outlook does not remove styling on <a> tags, so this should work there as well.
address#example.com
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I am trying below function in sending email and same content works fine when i receive email in outlook but when i see in gmail it does not even show the link on the Tag.Can you some body help me how can i fix the issue in Gmail and is there any limit for mailto function in gmail?
Want to approve some but not all repairs in the repair quotation
The standard (mailto protocol) doesn't define a maximum length, leaving implementation up to browsers and mail clients (IETF RFC 2368). But you can find some limitations described for browsers and mail clients on the Effective maximum mailto: body lengths thread.
Also, take a look at the MAILTO max-length of each internet browsers? page.
We have Ruby script that fetch and parse reply emails from our clients and putting them on appropriate client object in application.
For that purpose we send email to client with specific "hidden" code/id inside 1x1 pixel img tag (in similar way tracking pixel technology works) when clients reply to email, they quote our original email with code/id inside. And when we get client reply we can detect that hidden code from img tag, and process it accordingly. This works fine except when clients are replying from Outlook 2013.
Outlook 2013 removes image data containing code/id, and put something like "Image removed by sender." so we cannot detect see code/id anymore.
Also tried, making a image from base64 and even encoding code/id inside base64 image, but we got same result.
We tried different solutions, like making custom tags with class name contain code/id. Those custom tags are removed too, and replaced with something like < o:p >< /o:p >
We tried to put code/id inside invisible div, in inline css and various css tricks, and in this case Outlook just removes invisibility of div, and code/id is visible in email content.
There is a option that code/id is visible text inside body or subject, but we would like that this code/id be stays invisible to the clients.
It seems like its almost impossible to pass some hidden data trough reply email from MS Outlook.
Is there any way that we can pass this code/id trough reply email from outlook, without outlook removing it or making it visible?
Thank you.
Unless the data is visible (one way or another), chances are Outlook (or rather Word-light used for editing emails) will remove it.
White text on white background would probably work...
<img src=3D"https://t.yesware.com/t/58c8a29bcdf01103c9661815ef20eff8d=
f34a1b3/556ad713ae0cb0b15199a455f1fa5dfd/spacer.gif" style=3D"border:0; wid=
th:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;" width=3D"0" height=3D"0"><img src=3D"http=
://t.yesware.com/t/58c8a29bcdf01103c9661815ef20eff8df34a1b3/556ad713ae0cb0b=
15199a455f1fa5dfd/spacer.gif" style=3D"border:0; width:0; height:0; overflo=
w:hidden;" width=3D"0" height=3D"0">
I will address this dry-snitching code in a bit
Yesware is a paid service that allows you to track when and where the recipient of your email opens that email, every single time that they do or if they forward it to someone else, you will get the IP address and device type of each of those opens as well.
I've used Yesware for years, this is the first time that it has peeked it's little head out. In an email chain involving my Gmail hosted email and someone we will call Quarles. The first email I sent Quarles went normally, I received notification from Yesware that Quarles opened it from an iPhone. No further notifications came from YesWare which is impossible because he has replied twice.
I discovered in the latest email thread, under my second reply, Image removed by sender.Image removed by sender.
Below my third reply, Error! File name not specified.Error! Filename not specified.
I viewed the headers and, damn the luck, Quarles is using Outlook on a Mac Microsoft-MacOutlook/10.c.0.180410
What I am curious about is what Quarles sees on his end. Because the gif is not gone, the code is still there in our thread untouched. I know because if I open the email thread from another device (non-sending device) I get the notification that someone opened the email. So, what is preventing the code from calling home? Is it his MacOutlook? Is it an add-on he's got?
I am seriously considering having my husband write something better than Yesware. He's not a programmer but he is a SysAdmin so he'll figure it out. Besides, the stupid programs he has designed looked like crap anyway so why not write code for something that is supposed to remain unseen.
Oops, gotta go, if he catches me on stackoverflow he's gonna freak.. ;)
Is it possible to put html form elements in mandrill app and send emails? I tried various possible things to send textbox and radio button but it does not show up in gmail.
No you can't use forms in emails.
"The short of it is that email clients consider email forms to be a security risk. While some email clients simply warn you of potential danger, others outright disable the forms. So if your client wants to send out a form, they should know that most of their recipients will never be able to use it. And for those who can, they’ll think twice about submitting data when they see a warning from their email client." - campaignmonitor.
I have created an html form with text boxes and radio buttons ect.
I can email the form to an email address.
now the problem, when i fill in the form and click reply, i only get my blank html form back no values were left inside the textbox's.
Please help
We did some fairly extensive research about HTML forms in emails for a client of ours. The bottom line is that it barely works, so it’s best to link to a form in a browser.
What Quentin said holds water, many email clients (cough, outlook) are very specific in regards to their support for HTML emails. In fact most don't even support div's or embedded <style> blocks. Let alone an HTML form.
Your best bet is to use a URL that they click on, which in-turn opens up a form for them to fill out. If you need to capture some of their information automatically (such as email). you can generate query strings and in your mailer have it add the information in dynamicallly..
i.e; <a href="http://awesomeform.com/form.php?email=$client_email">
In email it would look like: http://awesomeform.com/form.php?email=myemail#email.com
Either way
If you are insistent on attempting this, use the email boilerplate to get you started. It has a ton of "best practices" and tips/tricks built right into it.
http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
Complex HTML doesn't mix with many email clients. Forms are especially poorly supported.
Link to an HTML document available over HTTP instead. People can click a link and open it in a regular web browser.
I'm using C# to send email newsletters for subscribers.
There's no problem with sending the email but some email clients like outlook and hotmail receive html newsletter as an attachment and the email body contains only plaintext with html tags removed and some clients like gmail receive the email just fine.
What actually creates this behavior? If i put just few html tags in to message outlook and hotmail shows the newsletter fine but as i put in more html elements my mail arrives as attachment.
I've been trying to find out how to make my email appear ok in most popular email clients like outlook but have had no success so far. Anyone care to enlighten me how this email + html stuff actually works?
Have a look at the Mailchimp and CampaignMonitor links in this answer, which may help you.
Since you don't provide any information about how you're using C# to send this email, we can only speculate about what you're doing and what the problem might be. It sounds like you might be using MailMessage.AlternateViews to send your HTML, but only have that one view. If you're not intending to send out a multipart/alternative message then you should simply set the MailMessage.Body to your HTML content with MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = true.
That being said: I make the assumptions I do because some email clients are smarter than others, and if the content-type header doesn't make sense they'll do their best to try to figure out what the nicest way to display the content is, each potentially trying something different. If, however, my assumptions are incorrect it would greatly help to know the code you're using to generate the email, and even an example of the message headers.