Stop Auto-hyperlink in Outlook, Gmail etc
c#, email
Solution
I know this thread is old, but I just had this issue myself, and wasn't thrilled by the gif image fix. If you're working with HTML emails, a slightly nicer solution is to break up the link text with a non-rendering tag that tricks the parser. I'm a fan of a simple non-existant <z>:
https<z>://securesite.</z>com
It even works in Stack Overflow posts: https://securesite.com.
Hope this helps someone.
Problem
My web application sends emails to users. The email contains a link for further user action. Our security standards require that the link in the email cannot be clickable. However, the email clients recognize https:// in the email and auto-link the URL. Any idea on how to stop the email clients to auto-link. I am thinking if I skip the https://, it may stop the auto-linking. But, if I have to keep the https:// is there any way to avoid auto-linking. The link in the email is dynamically constructed in the c# code.