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I'm developing an application that sends emails to customers. The body of the email contains a URL encoded hyperlink back to our site kind of like this:

http://myserver/myfolder/test.cfm?id=%409%20%2DW9I74%3D%402%5CN8%2A5%3D%3D5%2D%40%3C%3D%3DQ%5B%40%3AB%5D2Q%2B%2BN%3C44%3A3%3E3%3C%20%0A

In Yahoo, GMail, Outlook, etc. the link works fine. However Hotmail is decoding the link before it sends:

http://myserver/myfolder/test.cfm?id=@WUE^[MA6 9J?%3D5B%258D^K5@^%2BD<;5U) '((OZ<,%2BFU%25(

Anyone know how to fix this problem with Hotmail?

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Hotmail will scramble anything that is surrounded by quotes in html, so remove all single and double quotes from the email. In other words:

<a href="http://www.google.com">

would need to be

<a href=http://www.google.com>
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