# Mailto links in Discourse emails are botched
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [6월 6, 2018, 3:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253 "2018-06-06T15:04:17Z")
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [6월 6, 2018, 3:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253/1 "2018-06-06T15:04:17Z")
Hello. A user of ours recently pointed this bug out out. It wouldn’t be too big of a deal except that his web host (Lunar Pages) actually flags his Discourse emails as suspicious because of this and perhaps other email/hosts might as well.
Let’s say someone makes a post in Discourse like:
> Hi there. I can help you. Email me at [username@domain.com](mailto:username@domain.com).
Discourse properly turns that into a “mailto” link on the forum itself. But when that post appears in a Discourse email, the underlying html is:
`username@domain.com`
Instead of:
`username@domain.com`
Is this happening to others as well?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6월 7, 2018, 1:45오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253/3 "2018-06-07T01:45:30Z")
Are you referring to email or the post body? @jomaxro can you test in an email just to see?
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [6월 7, 2018, 2:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253/5 "2018-06-07T14:12:27Z")
In emails that Discourse sends out (e.g. mailing list mode emails), any email address within in a post gets mucked up like so:
`username@domain.com`
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [6월 7, 2018, 7:02오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253/6 "2018-06-07T19:02:18Z")
In case this is helpful, I just verified that this happens to us in all three types of emails that Discourse sends:
1. Activity summary emails (“Since your last visit…”)
2. Mailing list mode emails
3. Daily digest emails (no longer a part of Discourse but someone wrote us a plugin for this which copied the old code for this)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [6월 7, 2018, 8:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253/7 "2018-06-07T20:46:29Z")
OK cool @neil can I add this to your plate to fix? We should maybe backport the fix too.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [6월 7, 2018, 9:13오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253/8 "2018-06-07T21:13:34Z")
I can confirm this (sorry for the delay) - the HTML definitely appears broken in the raw email. This affects standard email notifications (watching a topic, mentioned, etc) in addition to the emails mentioned above.
```plaintext
test@example.com
```
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [6월 13, 2018, 2:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253/9 "2018-06-13T14:28:27Z")
This bug is fixed, and ported to the stable branch.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [6월 13, 2018, 2:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailto-links-in-discourse-emails-are-botched/89253/10 "2018-06-13T14:28:34Z")