Yahoo Mail is re-writing the links. Probably not working correctly because the URLs are missing the leading "http://"; so are treated as relative links, which don't make sense in emails.
Anthony On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, jjg0 wrote: > > I'm trying to send an email with html and links to pages. > > Simple example of what I am doing: > > testlink = 'www.yahoo.com' > email_body = "<html><body>Testing Emails with HTML<br><a href='%s' > target='new'>first link test</a><br><a href='www.yahoo.com'>second link > test</a></body></html>" % testlink > mail.send(to=['[email protected] <javascript:>'], > subject='testing links', > message=email_body) > > > Details: > -There are two links, one using %s with testlink and one just using <a > href='www.yahoo.com'> I am trying both ways just to play around with the > emails and python, still new to a lot of this and learning. > -The mail is working, it sends to my yahoo account just fine > -I know I can get html emails in my yahoo account because I've gotten > other working emails with html and links in them. > -I'm pretty sure the html part is working because I see the text > correctly, the <br>'s are working, and the text to the links are underlined > as if they are links, however they aren't actually links to anything. > -I am using google app engine and my gmail account to send this email. > > To be clear, I get an email that looks like this: > > Testing Emails with HTML > first link test <----------This is blue and underlined, but when I > hover the mouse over it it is not actually a link > second link test <--------- This is blue and underlined, but when I hover > the mouse over it it is not actually a link > > When I view the page source for these links I see something like this: > > <a id="yui_3_7_2_1_1364943360317_3597" rel="nofollow">second link test</a> > > > How does this: > <a href='www.yahoo.com'>second link test</a> > > get translated to this: > > <a id="yui_3_7_2_1_1364943360317_3597" rel="nofollow">second link test</a> > > ?? > > > I can't figure out why the links aren't showing up correctly. Is there > something wrong with my code? Something I can't do with gae or yahoo? What > am I doing wrong? > > Thanks > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
