Prevent Gmail from creating links for URLs and email addresses

Question

Problem is Gmail automatically creates hyperlinks for all website URLs and email addresses. I do not want to create a link.

var mailClient = new SmtpClient(); var netMail = new MailMessage();  msg = "I do not want www.google.com as a link at recipient end. <br/>"; msg += "I want my email addrress [email protected] as html without a link";  var cr = new NetworkCredential("########", "###########");  netMail.From = new MailAddress("########@m####.###", "######"); netMail.To.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]")); netMail.Subject = "Test Mail"; netMail.IsBodyHtml = true; netMail.Body = msg;  mailClient.Host = "xyz.com"; mailClient.Port = 25; mailClient.EnableSsl = false; mailClient.Credentials = cr; mailClient.Send(netMail); 

Any solution?

Answer 1

I had a same issue and found out if you use email like this;

<a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration:none; color:#333'>[email protected]</a> 

email providers does not tend to follow email as a link.

Hope this helps.