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link in email not working, x-msg in front of link?


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here's my code that i've used to send an email.

 

$link = "<a href=\"http://www.example.com/" . $num . "\">" . $num . "</a>";

$query = "SELECT content FROM emails";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die();
$email_content = mysql_result($result, 0);
$email = sprintf($email_content, $first, $name, $from, $link, $record, $rec, $inc, $max);
$email_body = stripslashes(htmlentities($email, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));

// this is sent to another php script via post....

$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = nl2br(html_entity_decode($_POST['email_body']));	
$to = "me@whatever.com";
$charset='UTF-8';
$encoded_subject="=?$charset?B?" . base64_encode($subject) . "?=\n";
$headers="From: " . $userEmail . "\n"
. "Content-Type: text/html; charset=$charset; format=flowed\n"
. "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
. "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
mail($to,$encoded_subject,$message,$headers);

 

in the db, emails.content is of the text type and contains several lines of text with %4$s which inserts the value of $link into the body.  when the email arrives, there is a link and it appears fine, with the value of $num hyperlinked.  however when you click on it it doesn't go anywhere.  when copying the link location from the email it gives me

 

x-msg://87/%22http://www.example.com/16

 

what is x-msg?  how can i get this to work properly?

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try this please........

<?php
$link = "<a href=\"http://www.example.com/" . $num . "\">" . $num . "</a>";

$query = "SELECT content FROM emails";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die();
$email_content = mysql_result($result, 0);
$email = sprintf($email_content, $first, $name, $from, $link, $record, $rec, $inc, $max);
$email_body = stripslashes(htmlentities($email, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));

// this is sent to another php script via post....
$mes=nl2br(html_entity_decode($_POST['email_body']));
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $mes;	
$to = "me@whatever.com";
$charset='UTF-8';
$encoded_subject="=?$charset?B?" . base64_encode($subject) . "?=\n";
$headers="From: " . $userEmail . "\n"
. "Content-Type: text/html; charset=$charset; format=flowed\n"
. "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
. "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
. "X-Mailer: PHP\n";
mail($to,$encoded_subject,$message,$headers);
?>

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thanks for your response! =)

 

this does not work for me either though.  i want to double check here, the only change was to declare the value of the variable $mes as the $_POST content, then declare a new variable named $message with the value of $mes, and use it in the mail function.  is that correct?  i'm curious what your thought process is here.  would you mind sharing your thoughts?

 

thanks again for your time.

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ok i found a solution to my problem, but i still don't know why the problem exists.  also my solution wouldn't work if i needed two different links in the same email, to two different domains.

 

however, if i include an html base tag in the beginning of $message, and define the base url, it works fine.  why?

 

how could i do this if i wanted two links to two different domains within the same email?

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  • 2 years later...

I know this is a late response but I ran into the same problem and couldn't find a solution anywhere, however I ran across this post multiple times so I figured I'd post it here.

 

The problem arose for me when a link was emailed out without having http:// or https:// before the url.

 

So for example if I created a link:

<a href="www.something.com">Link</a>

On an apple computer it would show up as:

<a href="x-msg://201/www.something.com">Link</a>

which doesn't work.

 

The easy solution is to just add a protocol to the link:

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

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