Problem in link when sending HTML email using CDONTS.Newmail

[drorit30]

I have a site where if a user registers he I need to send him a link to validate his registration. I am using CDONTS.Newmail and sending an HTML email as shown below:

strPassword = "123456789"

Set objMailer = CreateObject("CDONTS.Newmail")

objMailer.BodyFormat = 0 'FOR HTML
objMailer.MailFormat = 0

htmlLink = "www.mysite.com/validation.asp?email=" & Request.Form("email") & "&code=" & strPassword


The problem is that some users (about 10%) who register complain that they
cannot go to this link. When I test it on a numerous email clients I am using (yahoo, gmail, outlook express) they all work, so i assume it is some other email client.
I had one user send me the email which he received, and it seems that the link to the validation page in the email which he received was split.

email example:
To validate you link press on the following link
www.mysite.com/validation.asp?email=
user@user.com&code=123456789

But only the first line was in the href part. The second part was just regular text.

I know this because when I opened up the html page of the email I saw
that the </a> was after 'www.mysite.com/validation.asp?email=' and not
after the end of the whole link.


I hope I am making myself clear.

If anyone knows what the problem may me, I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance.

[Thing]

This is a common issue for web based email. The only option you really have is to send an HTML email with the link in the source and short anchor text so it does not wrap:

<a href=www.blahblahblah.com/validate.asp?action=email&thing=awesome>click here</a>

The issue is some web based email force email messages into a tighter space and force word wrap as well.

[drorit30]

Thanks for the quick response.
If I understand correctly, if the link itself is very long, then it does not matter if the
anchor text is short, since the web based email will wrap the link.

So are you saying that this will also NOT work:
<a href = "www.my site.com/site/validateRegistration.asp?email=newuser1@newuser.com&validateString=DHJHGFJKDGFGHJDGHJDHJGGDHJHGDHJ>CLICK HERE</a>

which means that I need to make my link shorter?

Thanks

[Thing]

That should work in an HTML email, since the only text showing for the link is CLICK HERE.