I granted admin to a user and received the admin email (admin_confirmation_message) but the ‘Confirm Admin Account’ in the email is not a link/button and can’t be clicked. It’s just plain text. [discourse-confirm-admin-account] I noticed someone else mentioned this in another thread and said it …

Wow, you were right, I logged into our G Suite (Gmail) account directly and sure enough, the link is displayed in the email as it should be. That’s strange, no idea why it wouldn’t have come through in our ticket/email suite (we use Teamwork Desk). Thanks for suggesting that, problem solved …

I have found admin_confirmation_mailer.text_body_template at Customize > Text Content. Which contains:- Please confirm that you'd like to add **%{target_username}** as an administrator for your forum. [Confirm Administrator Account](%{admin_confirm_url}) Is there something I need to modify with …

Hi Geoff, I tested this locally and couldn’t reproduce it, I see a link in the email body (and clicking on it works): [image] Is your Discourse instance not up to date, by any chance?

Could you confirm how this was installed?

[image] pmusaraj: Hi Geoff, I tested this locally and couldn’t reproduce it, I see a link in the email body (and clicking on it works): [image] Is your Discourse instance not up to date, by any chance? Yes, DIscourse says it is up to date. I checked the version and it is v2.3.0.beta9 +20 . …

[image] Stephen: Could you confirm how this was installed? Just a standard docker install as per the instructions here . The ‘Grant Admin’ functionality is included in the default release. Not modified further in any way. Thanks.

Confirm Admin Account in admin_confirmation_message email can't be clicked

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pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj) May 17, 2019, 1:46pm 7

Is it possible your mail client is stripping links? Can you try this on a different client or look at the full email output?

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Confirm Admin Account in admin_confirmation_message email can't be clicked

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