How Can I put a HTML link Inside an email body?

Question

I have an application thats can send mails, implemented in Java. I want to put a HTML link inside de mail, but the link appears as normal letters, not as HTML link... How can i do to inside the HTML link into a String? I need special characters? thank you so much

Update: HI evereybody! thanks for oyu answers! Here is my code:

public static boolean sendMail(Properties props, String to, String from,
          String password, String subject, String body)
{
    try
    {
        MimeBodyPart mbp = new MimeBodyPart(); 
        mbp.setContent(body, "text/html"); 
        MimeMultipart multipart = new MimeMultipart(); 
        multipart.addBodyPart(mbp); 



        // Preparamos la sesion
        Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props);

        // Construimos el mensaje
        MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
        message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
        message.setContent(multipart);
        message.addRecipient(
                Message.RecipientType.TO,
                new InternetAddress(to));
        message.setSubject(subject);
        message.setText(body);

        // Lo enviamos.
        Transport t = session.getTransport("smtp");
        t.connect(from, password);
        t.sendMessage(message, message.getAllRecipients());

        // Cierre.
        t.close();
        return true;
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return false;
    }
}

And here the body String:

        String link = "<a href=\"WWW.google.es\">ACTIVAR CUENTA</a>";

But in the received message the link appears as the link string, not as HTML hyperlink! I don't understand what happens...

Any solution?

Answer 1

Adding the link is as simple as adding the <a href="..">text</a> inside the string. You should set your email to support html (it depends on the library you are using), and you should not escape your email content before sending it.

Update: since you are using java.mail, you should set the text this way:

message.setText(body, "UTF-8", "html");

html is the mime subtype (this will result in text/html). The default value that is used by the setText(string) method is plain