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Hi all,

When I receive a Mailing List activation email, I notice that the text says:

“Please click on the link below to confirm your email.

http://www.mydomain.com/ee/index.php?ACT=4&id=pKRy6cDZbg”

However, the link does not show up as a html anchor tag, so I can’t actually click on it.  I have to copy the url and paste it into my address bar.  Is it possible to have a html formatted version of the activation email? 

Regards, and thanks in advance

These mails are sent out as plain text, yes. Most modern user agents display a link such as this as clickable URL, though. What are you using?

Hi there,

I have attached a pic of what I am seeing (in my hotmail account)

Thanks

I am using EE 1.6.8

My user agent:

Mozilla/5.0
Macintosh
U
Intel Mac OS X 10.4
en-US
rv:1.9.2.2
Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2

Also, the message that appears on subscribing doesn’t look great.  I know it’s possible to edit the html in the user messages section in Admin.  But can I not just one one of my own existing EE templates?  For example, can I used an {embed} tag in the User Message Template?

dotnetster,

Hotmail is likely not auto-linking because it thinks the message “may be dangerous”.  That could be because:

1. The link points to localhost (this won’t be an issue on live site)
2. The email looks spammy because of how your local machine is sending the email (also not an issue on a live site)

Or both.  Basically, you probably won’t see this issue outside of your local development server.  Does that help?

Hi Brandon,

Yep. That explains it.  Cheers.

Ross

Glad Brandon and Ingmar were able to help. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.