HTML Email - Links don't work in Hotmail

[evemarie]

This will probably win the award for strangest html behavior of the day!

I am designing an email with html. There are links within the email to webpages. For example, one link points to:

http://www.hartmanbaldwin.com/projects/residential/freed2/index.html.

I sent a test email to myself and opened the message using Outlook, Yahoo, and Hotmail. In Outlook and Yahoo, the links work, i.e. clicking on the link opens up the specified page in a new browser window.

However, when clicking on the link in Hotmail, a new browser window opens showing my updated in-box. When I view the properties for the link, the address for the page is nowhere to be found - only a mysterious reference to the cgi-bin.

I checked some other html emails that I have received via Hotmail, and there seems to be an "action" within the link properties. Is this necessary for sending HTML email to Hotmail accounts?

Does anyone have any idea why Hotmail might treat html differently? Any hints at all?

Thanks!
Eve-Marie

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

I regularly send e-mails to Hotmail users and the links work without a problem.

Can you post the actual code that you are sending?

Hope this helps Wullie

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[evemarie]

After puzzling over it, and scratching my head all day, I think I've solved the problem:

My links were pointing to pages using "\" slashes instead of "/" slashes. Apparently some mail clients aren't quite as picky as Hotmail.

Gotta love coding!
Thanks for the help.