Web Link in a mail is not rendering as link in yahoo

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string from = "abc@gmail.com"; string to = "xyz@gmail.com,xyz@yahoo.co.in"; string password="abcxyz";

MailMessage mail = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
mail.To.Add(to);
mail.From = new MailAddress(from, "Check Email", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
mail.Subject = "This is a test mail";
mail.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
mail.Body = "<html><body><h1>My Message</h1><br><a href=www.stackoverflow.com>stackoverflow</a></body></html>";
mail.IsBodyHtml = true;

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(from,password);
client.Port = 587;
client.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
client.EnableSsl = true; 
client.Send(mail);

This code successfully sents the mail. When i look at my gmail, the "stackoverflow" link renders as link and i was able to navigate to the respective page, but in yahoo i don't find any link instead just the text "stackoverflow" appears.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '09 at 07:25

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<a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">stackoverflow</a>

You forgot the http://

answered Nov 16 '09 at 07:25

o.k.w

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I don't think it is the missing protocol so much as the unquoted attribute value. – Andrew Hare Nov 16 '09 at 07:27
I just tried one mail to yahoo with `text`, works for me. :P – o.k.w Nov 16 '09 at 07:40
I was coding some emailing stuff when I saw this post, took me less than a minute to verify with yahoo mail :) – o.k.w Nov 16 '09 at 12:53

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '09 at 07:26

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Perhaps Yahoo! Mail is less forgiving about unquoted HTML attribute values, try this instead:

mail.Body 
    = "<html><body><h1>My Message</h1><br><a href=\"http://www.stackoverflow.com\">stackoverflow</a></body></html>";

answered Nov 16 '09 at 07:26

Andrew Hare

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I've tried `text`, seems pretty forgiving in yahoo mail. – o.k.w Nov 16 '09 at 09:21

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '09 at 07:27

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Try

<a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com/"> stackoverflow</a>

answered Nov 16 '09 at 07:27

claws

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 16 '09 at 07:29

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Try specifying a valid html:

mail.Body = "<html><body><h1>My Message</h1><br><a href=\"http://www.stackoverflow.com\">stackoverflow</a></body></html>";

answered Nov 16 '09 at 07:29

Darin Dimitrov

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 16 '09 at 09:50

When sending bulk of html content as body, http do matter. This is the code in my config file troubled me. When i added http, it works fine, without http, yahoo fails.

<tr>
  <td colspan="2"  onClick="#stackoverflow#" style="cursor:hand;">
    <center>
     <b>
       <a href='http://www.stackoverflow.com' style="color:#1C0693;text-decoration:none;">stackoverflow</a>
     </b>
    </center>
 </td>
</tr>

Web Link in a mail is not rendering as link in yahoo

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