Ahhh I was forgetting the 'http://' Thanks for the help.
On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 10:56:51 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > > 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]'], >> 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.
