Mail program splits link over two lines

Question

Hi,

In C#, I'm sending a mail with an activation link to users after they have registered. However, the link is split over two lines in the mail and thus doesn't work.

I've checked in Visual Studio and the string containing the link looks fine. I've also tried: strMessage.Replace("\r", ""); strMessage.Replace("\n", ""); but without success.

Do you have any ideas on how to solve this? I've googled it for hours and can't find the solution...

Thanks! /J

Answer 1

Is the link longer than 78 chars? Or is there some other text in front of it?

If so, see if you can make it less than 78 and I don't think it'll wrap it. Otherwise, I seem to remember that this could be sort of fixed in some email applications by changing the encoding, possibly the same might work here since I see that there are various Encoding properties of MailMessage.

Answer 2

If you are sending the message as an HTML email, then you could put a link around the email so that it renders on one line, and then have the actual link in brackets with instructions on how to copy and paste it ensuring it's on one line.

Register <a href="http://www.longaddresshere.com/thatkeepswrapping"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;
(if the above does not appear in a link, copy the following link into your
browser ensuring that it all goes on one line: 
http://www.longaddresshere.com/thatkeepswrapping)

Answer 3

I finally managed to solve this annoying problem. It seems like Outlook was the cause of everything, it divided my LONG html string into two lines. My link just happened to be right at the point of the line break. So I added the sufficient number of characters (with the same color as the background) to make my link start on the second line.

Not the best solution, but it worked in this case...