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I'm working on some ftl templates and email addresses are coming through as links, specifically on mobile browsers and in Outlook.

Anyone know how to block this from happening?

Thanks in advance!

Note: I am not adding them as links, just the email itself.

jackreichert
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This has most probably nothing to do with Freemarker. What you are observing is an issue depending on how e-mail clients handle and display e-mails. Some clients just try to "help", identifying web and e-mail addresses etc. and then making them links.

Depending on the Mime type, different mail clients have different ways handling/displaying e-mails. Outlook e.g. sometimes does not display all attachments. It is anything but trivial to send out e-mails that display well in every mail client out there.

This thread on sevenforums.com states that you can trigger hyperlink replacement on or off in the options:

  • File > Options > Mail > Editor Options > AutoCorrect Options > AutoFormat tab > Replace > Internet and network paths with hyperlinks
Lars Gendner
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This is not a FreeMarker problem. Your using FreeMarker to simply generate HTML. If the HTML being produced is creating an HTML email link, then you need to modify template text, not any freemarker directive or setting.

I assume the template currently looks something like 

<a href="mailto:${emailAddress}">Send Email</a>

change it to just

${emailAddress}

Andy
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