YAHOO screwing with your emails.
- "We were testing outbound emails in the usual email clients/services. When we looked at our messages in Yahoo mail, we noticed that Yahoo is now turning random snippets of text into hyper-links that, upon rollover, point to their advertising partners. Obviously this will cause some issues as we're sending out emails on behalf of our clients that, when viewed in Yahoo inbox, suddenly include links to competitor's sites. Not good. (Incidentally, this is also causing the linked text to change color, which in some cases, makes the text hard to read on a dark background.)"
It's been going on for quite some time now, and you all should know that any text in the body of a message can be replaced with a hyperlink to an advertisement that is:
What is there to do about it?
Change the style of your body messages, it is easier to place something like the code below around the entire block of text and Yahoo will ignore the text as an option to add their Yahoo Links. Eliminating the problem above:
Code:
<a style="cursor:text;text-decoration:none;">
<span style="text-decoration:none;">
[plain text with regular links goes here]
</span>
</a>
What about the links changing? try this solution:
Code:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
.yshortcuts { color:#CCCCCC }
.yshortcuts a span { color:#00FF00 }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="yshortcuts" style="font-family: 'Arial', Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Plain;
font-size: 12px;
color: #CCCCCC; padding: 2px; margin: 2px; line-height: 12px; font-weight: normal; display: block;
width: 400px;">This is a test link <a href="http://www.robo-mail.com/" style="text-decoration:
none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; color: #00FF00;">www.robo-mail.com</a> to enter.</div>
</body>
</html>
