How to send hyperlinks in email

[starwarsdad]

I am developing a web-based application using ColdFusion. I need to send email to users from the site. I am doind this with a CFMAIL tag with no problems, except....

My links are generally in the neighborhood of 80+ characters long. Most email clients break links somewhere around 75 characters and wrap the "left-overs" to the next line. What can I do to get the links to stay "whole" even if part of the link wraps to another line?

The emails I am sending out are in Plain Text, BTW.

Many Thanks and Happy Memorial Day!

 

[AFB]

Like href links ? <A href... </a> ?

 

[starwarsdad]

nope. I am sending the messages in plain text. No HREF tags at all. Just a link:

http://www.domain.com/directory/subdirectory/getfile.cfm?type=xxx&amp;subtype=yyy&amp;filename=name.extension

That's it. No HTML code.

 

[n0cmonkey]

If the clients wrap at 72 characters (which I believe is proper netiquette 😉), and you won't move to HTML emails (THANK YOU!), not sure there is much you can do about it.

Unless you work with something like: http://tinyurl.com/

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: starwarsdad
nope. I am sending the messages in plain text. No HREF tags at all. Just a link:

http://www.domain.com/directory/subdirectory/getfile.cfm?type=xxx&amp;subtype=yyy&amp;filename=name.extension

That's it. No HTML code.

Would it be possible to have another script to interpret a smaller link and redirect you ?


Like :

http://www.domain.com/mail.cfm?t=xxx&amp;s=yyy&amp;f=name.extension

Gets translated to this by the second script :

http://www.domain.com/directory/subdirectory/getfile.cfm?type=xxx&amp;subtype=yyy&amp;filename=name.extension

 

[starwarsdad]

TinyURL looks cool, but I cannot use it. The emails must show up as coming from my domain.

I will have to look into the idea of a translation script.

Oh and BTW NOCmonkey, I hate HTML email! It would not hurt my feelings to see it go away completely.

Thanks for the help gentlemen.