Newsletter links - are they being hijacked?

[Duffield1]

I am running into a peculiar challenge with my newsletters (using smf 2.0..  I have created one using html code to flag up posts that have had no responses, using the syntax:
<a href="http://www.******.co.uk/index.php?topic=6757.0">Tax implications of buying/selling a property below market value </a>

However, when the newsletter arrives, clicking on the link sends me to:
http://xn--http-996a/www.******.co.uk/index.php?topic=4637.0"

Any ideas why that might happen, and is it a glitch or something malicious?  I've starred out the real name of the site.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

[kat]

Just curious, here... Why use html? What if a recipient only receives e-mails in plain text, as I do, for security reasons?

For newsletters that go as PMs, you can use BBC tags, anyway..

I'm not even sure that html is meant to be used, in newsletters (I could be wrong).

Anyway, check the quote marks, surrounding the URL...

They have to be the standard ", which is shift-2 on an English-British keyboard. If you use backwards/forwards quote marks, instead of both being the standard " you'll get the very error that you're describing.

Try copy/pasting...

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<a href="http://www.******.co.uk/index.php?topic=6757.0">Tax implications of buying/selling a property below market value </a>

You'll need to replace the stars, though, obviously.

[Kindred]

You are talking about using the newsletter function in smf admin, right?


well, for one  I see those idiotic "curly quotes" in your paste, which is guaranteed to screw things up (you pasted from word didn't you?)

[Duffield1]

I did indeed paste from Word - I have been tweaking the newsletter, so copied the original version into Word and have been pasting it back in with minor changes each step along the way.  I guess I'd be better using Notepad or something similar...

[Duffield1]

That worked - thank you very much for your help!

[kat]