How to escape abcd.com in order to not being displayed as hyperlink in e-mail body?

I am generating e-mails and in the e-mail body (html formatted) I need to include abcd.com but I need to escape it somehow to avoid gmail displaying it as a link (there's nothing at that address).

Any hints, please? Tried to google it but no luck.

None

Posted 2009-09-03T08:47:39.247

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You are not going to be able to reliably obfuscate a URL so that all mail clients do not see it as such without obfuscating it so far that the user will not understand it either.

You could try spacing everything out like http :// www . example . com / dir / subdir / file ? qstring. The only other way I can think of is to include the URL as an image if you are sending rich-text mail. Both these techniques though will trip anti-spam measures as trying to disguise URLs is one of the most obvious signs of spammer activity.

David Spillett

Posted 2009-09-03T08:47:39.247

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1Also, embedding images is bad from accessibility point of view. Plain text can be viewed with big fonts, read aloud with voice synthesis etc. – Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski – 2009-09-03T09:57:40.337

thanks for your suggestion but that's not good enough (I guess there's no solution). I rather kept just abcd without .com. But thanks anyway. – None – 2009-09-10T16:04:15.787

include this text immediately after your link:

(Please DO NOT click. There is nothing on this address.)

Cheers

Vinayak

Posted 2009-09-03T08:47:39.247

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