URGENT HELP - avoid anchor links in HTML email to open page in IE

Hi,

I made a web page I 've to send per email. This page includes standard
anchor points & hyperlinks (a name="" and a href="#").
My problem is that when you receive the email & click on a link, instead of
going to the anchor point immediately, Windows opens IE, go to that page at
the corresponding anchor point.

How to avoid this?

So I would like to "stay" in the email and go to the anchor point (exactly
like many HTML mailings I receive - see Macromedia newsletters for ex.). I
checked the sources of these emails but see nothing special. They use simple
anchor points & links. Am I missing something? Is it in the way you send the
email?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Henry Tourneur

henry tourneur

Op Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:22:56 +0100, schreef henry tourneur:

i hope you're not into spam ... target="_self"

> Hi,
>
> I made a web page I 've to send per email. This page includes standard
> anchor points & hyperlinks (a name="" and a href="#").
> My problem is that when you receive the email & click on a link, instead of
> going to the anchor point immediately, Windows opens IE, go to that page at
> the corresponding anchor point.
>
> How to avoid this?
>
> So I would like to "stay" in the email and go to the anchor point (exactly
> like many HTML mailings I receive - see Macromedia newsletters for ex.). I
> checked the sources of these emails but see nothing special. They use simple
> anchor points & links. Am I missing something? Is it in the way you send the
> email?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Henry Tourneur

Thanks for your answer; Unfortunatelly, it doesn't change anything.
And don't be afraid, I'm not a spammer (I hate that) but only a webdesigner.
My customer is in charge of sending the emails.



"jlambrecht" <> wrote in message
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> Op Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:22:56 +0100, schreef henry tourneur:
>
> i hope you're not into spam ... target="_self"
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I made a web page I 've to send per email. This page includes standard
> > anchor points & hyperlinks (a name="" and a href="#").
> > My problem is that when you receive the email & click on a link, instead
of
> > going to the anchor point immediately, Windows opens IE, go to that page
at
> > the corresponding anchor point.
> >
> > How to avoid this?
> >
> > So I would like to "stay" in the email and go to the anchor point
(exactly
> > like many HTML mailings I receive - see Macromedia newsletters for ex.).
I
> > checked the sources of these emails but see nothing special. They use
simple
> > anchor points & links. Am I missing something? Is it in the way you send
the
> > email?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Henry Tourneur
>

henry tourneur wrote:
> My problem is that when you receive the email & click on a link,
instead of
> going to the anchor point immediately, Windows opens IE, go to that
page at
> the corresponding anchor point.

This is certainly system, platform, and configuration dependent; in my
case, with Pegasus Mail set up as my mail program and Mozilla as my
browser, I never experience "Windows opening IE" as a result of
clicking on anything in a mail message.

--
Dan

No, this is not system dependent. It can't because, as I wrote in my first
message (see below), I also receive emails that are reacting "normally". See
the second part of my first message:

**************************************************
So I would like to "stay" in the email and go to the anchor point (exactly
like many HTML mailings I receive - see Macromedia newsletters for ex.). I
checked the sources of these emails but see nothing special. They use simple
anchor points & links.
**************************************************

Any other idea?

Thanks in advance

"Dan" <> wrote in message
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>
> henry tourneur wrote:
> > My problem is that when you receive the email & click on a link,
> instead of
> > going to the anchor point immediately, Windows opens IE, go to that
> page at
> > the corresponding anchor point.
>
> This is certainly system, platform, and configuration dependent; in my
> case, with Pegasus Mail set up as my mail program and Mozilla as my
> browser, I never experience "Windows opening IE" as a result of
> clicking on anything in a mail message.
>
> --
> Dan
>

"henry tourneur" <> wrote:

>I made a web page I 've to send per email. This page includes standard
>anchor points & hyperlinks (a name="" and a href="#").
>My problem is that when you receive the email & click on a link, instead of
>going to the anchor point immediately, Windows opens IE, go to that page at
>the corresponding anchor point.
>
>How to avoid this?
>
>So I would like to "stay" in the email and go to the anchor point (exactly
>like many HTML mailings I receive - see Macromedia newsletters for ex.). I
>checked the sources of these emails but see nothing special. They use simple
>anchor points & links. Am I missing something?

Without being able to see the source of your email we can only guess.

Have you got a <base href="..."> in there?
Or a <base target="..."> ?
Does whatever sends your e-mails rewrite the code? (Have you checked
that the code of the actual recieved e-mail only has <a href="#foo">
and nothing else, no filename, no target attribute?)

> Is it in the way you send the email?

Not as far as I know but I try to avoid sending HTML e-mails.

Steve