CFMAIL problem with hotmail accounts

[Guest]

I have the following code that should email users who signup for a e-newsletter the opportunity to confirm their subscription:

<cfmail to="#form.Email#" from="admin@test.com" server="mail.test" subject="Serenity Confirmation" charset="iso-8859-1" mailerid="Serenity" port="25">
A request to have your email added to the Serenity database in order to receive our e-newsletter has been received. In order to confirm your addition, please click on the link below:

http://www.serenity.com/verify.cfm?Act=#form.Email#&ID=#URLEncodedformat(form.User_UUID)#

It seems to display correctly in Outlook, and Yahoo, but in MSN, the url either becomes a 'mailto', or some other link that doesn't work...... plus, in Hotmail/MSN, the system displays the link/http line with:

http://www.serenityboise.com/verify.cfm?Act=#form.Email# being underlined as a active url link and the rest as just black text.

Does anyone have a solution for this? Its very frustrating......

Thanks!
Steve

[Fernis]

> http://www.serenityboise.com/verify.cfm?Act=#form.Email# being underlined
>as a active url link and the rest as just black text.

Are you saying there are pound (#) signs in the e-mail that is being sent? That can't be right... the link won't work either, if it wasn't evaulated correctly before sending.
There can logically be only one pound (#) sign in an URL, so the MSN behaviour would seem logical, since your link has a malformed target URL.

[Guest]

No, when the email is sent out, there are no #'s in the email itself, all the #'s have been replaced with the correct information, both pulled from a form.

But its not being displayed correctly in hotmail/msn, it stops displaying it as a link after the & in the url.

[Guest]

If the first parameter in the query string is being passed correctly, a work-around might be to place form.Email and form.User_UUID into a pipe-delimited string and passing that as the one and only parameter in the query string. When the user clicks the link, the linked-to page can decode the email address and UUID. See concept code below.

[Kronin555]

The reason this is happening is because of the ampersand.

Replace your &s with &

So your link becomes:

http://www.serenity.com/verify.cfm?Act=#form.Email#&ID=#URLEncodedformat(form.User_UUID)#

[Guest]

That didn't seem to help. Now when the email is sent, it comes through as:

Act=boise_bound@hotmail.com&ID=874184BC%2D115B%2D652C%2DAA0DC0A36ABCFD36

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Originally posted by: Kronin555
The reason this is happening is because of the ampersand.

Replace your &s with &

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