I found out that the links in the plain text version of email are converted - but not the html version of email.
Is this what the documentation meant by tracking is still experimental?
Did I miss anything? Anyone please enlighten me?
Sounds to me like a bug, very odd. Can give examples of the links that are not converting? I know there are a few odd issues with symbols etc from time to time, but I would assume these affect text as well as html…
Can give examples of the links that are not converting?
Source:
<p>
1. Lean Field Developments recently secured a package of CSG Infrastructure works on the Santos GLNG project in the Surat Basin seeking Poly HDPE Welders
<br />
<a href="http://www.seek.com.au/job/29086829">http://www.seek.com.au/job/29086829</a>
</p>
<p>
2. HDPE Pipe Welders Urgently Required for Various Ongoing FIFO Positions Across WA
<br />
<a href="http://www.seek.com.au/job/29155849">http://www.seek.com.au/job/29155849</a>
</p>
<p>
3. Qenos Pipe Resin Receives European and ISO Certifications
<br />
<a href="http://pipeliner.com.au/news/new_qenos_product_receives_european_and_iso_certifications/94018">http://pipeliner.com.au/news/new_qenos_product_receives_european_and_iso_certifications/94018</a>
</p>
PDFed emails below:
(LOL, tons restrictions for new user .___. Sorry, could you open the last link manually? Thanks~) HTML
Links such as these where the link text includes a url are not tracked. If they were tracked then the href url (which would be going to phplist) would be different to the url in the link text.
Many email clients will treat these as phishing and raise a warning, as Thunderbird does
The simplest way around this is to remove the http:// or https:// from the link text. To most people it will still look to be a link to a web page, and won’t fail the phplist filtering.
GOOD <a href="http://www.seek.com.au/job/29086829">1. Lean Field Developments...</a>
When sent, everything will go BAD...
I just have to go back to the way I was doing it originally - use the heading text as the link text.
I had to do this because my readers want the heading texts and links to be separate.
Anyway this is good to know, and thanks to @duncanc and @anna for replying
Very much appreciated