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Embedding OptOutUrl in a link?
May 24, 2010, 10:35:34 am
One of our clients does not like the long URL in the footer of his outgoing CiviMail messages. Is there a way to either shorten the URL or embed it in a link?

A secondary issue is that, even when sent to an HTML only recipient, neither the OptOutUrl or the OptOut mail address appear as a link. In fact, the OptOut e-mail address appears as code (mailto:  etc.)

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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Re: Embedding OptOutUrl in a link?
May 24, 2010, 12:51:35 pm

you should embed the url or the mailto address in a link in your message. The token just returns the url or the email address

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Re: Embedding OptOutUrl in a link?
May 24, 2010, 06:57:31 pm
If I try to send a message w/o the token in the message, it won't let me proceed. Am I missing something blindingly obvious? Each of those OptOutUrl tokens is custom to the user to whom the message was sent.

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Re: Embedding OptOutUrl in a link?
May 26, 2010, 02:11:18 am
The idea is that your final HTML template contains something like
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<a href="{action.optOutUrl}">click here to opt-out</a>
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Re: Embedding OptOutUrl in a link?
May 26, 2010, 06:35:30 am
Thank you for the explicit instructions - makes much more sense now. I wasn't aware that you could embed a token in an HREF statement like that.  Very handy trick!
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