Links in Outlook

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tetsujin1979

Hi, I'm writing an application that sends out mail notifications based
on enrollments in courses, when the mail is sent to a webmail account
(yahoo, gmail, etc) or mail client (Notes, Thunderbird, etc) it appears
fine, but in Outlook it just appears as text. The mail is sent as HTML,
but the hotspot is not created. Anyone idea why this is happening and
what I can do to sort it out?
This the HTML code that gets sent for the email:
<html>

<head>
<title>Enrollment notice</title>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<style>
<!--
h3.templ {font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif}
p.small {font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: smaller}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body text="black" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000">


<DIV ALIGN="center"><h3 class=templ>Enrollment notice</h3></DIV>
<br>

<br>

<P class = small>Dear</P>

<P class = small>Student {studentName}</P>

<P class = small>You have been enrolled in the following class:
<BR>{Course Name}
<BR>{Course Description}</P>
Click here to access further details
<BR>
<a href="http://www.classenrollment.com/"></a>

<P class = small>The class will take place here: </P>
<BR>{Location Data}
<P class = small>The class will take place on the following dates:</P>
<BR>{Time/Date Data}

</body>
</html>
 
S

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

YOu don't have any text or image inside your <a href="stuff"></a> tags. You need something like this:

<a href="http://www.classenrollment.com/">Click here to access further details</a>

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
S

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

I think at least some programs are quite forgiving when it comes to URLs in href attributes without quotation marks arouind them.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 

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