Inserting links into e-mails

[simontheak]

I am trying to insert a hypertext link in to a dynamically generated e-mail. It seems simple enough - but I can't quite get it to work.

I can send an e-mail if I use:

<a href='www.mydomain.com'> 

but when I click on it, I get a message from hotmail (which I'm using to check the mail) saying that it can't find their pages on the local server. So I figured that I should insert an http:// at the begginning of the URL to force hotmail to look outside of its local servers.

However, when I use the following code:

<a href='http://www.mydomain.com'> 

I get an e-mail through, but there's no content in it all!

Here's the whole section of the script:

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Woolmeister's Kitchen <info@woolmeisterskitchen.com>";

mail($eMail, "Newsletter Subscription", "<font face='Tahoma' size='2' color='#000000'>
Thanks for your subscription to our Newsletter.
<p>You will now receive regular updates regarding future events.<p>
To unsubscribe <a href=www.mydomain.com/unsubscribe.php?eMail=$eMail>click here</a>",$headers); 

Can anyone let me know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks alot

[Toly]

I tried sending an email to my hotmail account with your script and it worked fine. So I'm not sure why you are getting a blank email.

Did you try sending it to another email account?

[simontheak]

Mmm - that's strange. Which version of the URL did you use? Did you put the http:// in front of it? And did the linked page actually load up?

[simontheak]

Do I need to escape the forward slashes in http://? Could that be why it's not working?

[Toly]

Mmm - that's strange. Which version of the URL did you use? Did you put the http:// in front of it? And did the linked page actually load up?

Yes I did. I used <a href=\"http://www.mydomain.com/unsubscribe.php?eMail=$eMail\">.

The page I put in the link load fine.

[simontheak]

Ahhh - that's got it. Thanks very much for your help Toly