Question

I compose an e-mail with PHP that includes an A-tag to automatically login to my website and jump to a certain page.

In Outlook everything works fine, but Gmail and Ipad Mail show the link as normal text only, so you can not click on it. Somehow the link is not trusted, I guess, because another short link to my webpage in the e-mail DOES work.

Here’s an example of the link, it doesn’t work because of security reasons, but you get the idea :

<a id="Example" href="abc.domain.nl/loginlink.php?user=J535ZAFH&password=829%23221&screenid=SCREEN_USER&operation=VIEW&params=actiesoortid=REAGEREN&primaryfieldname=_jgubzp%7Fl%60k%7CmlPQ&primaryfieldvalue=%3E%3D%230%3C%28&optionprofile=150&userprofile=4">

(the username, password , primaryfieldname and primaryfieldvalue are encrypted for more security)

Obviously the URL is very long and doesn’s start with ‘www’, maybe that’s the reason, but I don’t really see an easy way to shorten the URL and change the subdomain.
Maybe it’s because the ‘params’ paramater has a double = ?

Are there maybe any things I can do to get this working in other mail-programs than Outlook ?

Answer 1

I added target='_blank' and now the link works in Gmail too!