Sending links to email with nodemailer not working

Question

I'm working on an app and I'm using nodemailer to send recovery emails for users to reset their passwords and I'm trying to send a link to a page that will allow them to change their password. I'm using the following for the body of the email

html: '<p>Click <a href="localhost:3000/sessions/recover/' + recovery_token + '">here</a> to reset your password</p>'

But when I test it I just get an email with the text and no link, using the ispector shows <a>here</a>, so it is sending the a tags, its just not sending the href.

score 40 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '16 at 15:44

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I figured out the answer after I typed this question, so I guess I'll just answer my own question in case anyone else has the problem. I needed to include the http:// in the email, when I changed the body of the email to

html: '<p>Click <a href="http://localhost:3000/sessions/recover/' + recovery_token + '">here</a> to reset your password</p>'

it started working.

answered Oct 20 '16 at 15:44

jmona789

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http matters nice explanation – muthukumar selvaraj Sep 05 '17 at 11:51
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How can i send deep links? – michaelitoh Mar 20 '19 at 00:04
What do you mean by deep links? – jmona789 Mar 20 '19 at 00:06
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Something like this: app-name://domain/reset-password?token=$2a$05$kcFmMVAsYAult7V3KN.J0eO7ynyY1ebAFTFaO82hidJ30ztJpYxYO. Read more here: https://medium.com/@ageitgey/mobile-deep-linking-part-2-using-a-hosted-deep-links-provider-c61fa58d083e – michaelitoh Mar 20 '19 at 00:26
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I'm not sure how to do that, it's pretty unrealated to this question you should probably find a more relevant question that may have an answer or post a question yourself. – jmona789 Mar 20 '19 at 00:56

Sending links to email with nodemailer not working

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