Posted by Philip Ronan on 07/20/05 11:42

"Dave Smithz" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks to this group I discovered the excellent PHP Mailer
> (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/) which I use to send emails.
>
> Part of my application emails out hundreds of club members unique URL links
> which allow them to register for various things.
> Sometimes these URLS are long because they contain custom codes.
>
> Problem I am having is that some members are saying the links do not work
> and investigating this it is because they are clicking on links that are
> being truncated by their email program.
>
> I therefore assume they are viewing email in plain text.
>
> What can I do to get around this?

1. Visit http://tinyurl.com/

-- OR --

2. Put angle brackets around the URLs like this:

<http://www.example.com/path/to/a-script-with-a-very-long-filename?and=a&lon
g=search&string=stuck&on=at&the=end>

-- OR --

3. Make your URLs shorter so they don't break. This is obviously the best
solution.

--
phil [dot] ronan @ virgin [dot] net
http://vzone.virgin.net/phil.ronan/

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