Email character issue

[Ed Carrington]

I am trying to figure out how to escape the & character in my JSP and Java files.

Mailto link not working because it cuts off the mail string after Data:

\\a href mailto attempt 
<a href="mailto:Data&Location\@mycompany.com" rel="nofollow">email</a>

Java email in Java class:

String myEmail = "Data\&[e-mail]";
\\rest of mail program here using the myEmail string as sending address.

I also tried double escape slashes and it still not working.
Please advise how I escape or handle the & character.

[Duc Vo]

Hi Ed,

Since the email address is a part of href of the A tag, you should use URL encoder to encode it. For the email address "Data&Location\@mycompany.com", the actual value should be [e-mail]

 <a href="mailto:[e-mail]" rel="nofollow">email</a> 

Hope it helps,

Duc

[Ed Carrington]

Thanks, that worked for my JSP.

The Java class for my email program still is not working.

None of the emails got sent because of the & issue with the first array value.
The email program does work if I eliminate the email with the &.

Here are my attempts:

String emailGroup[] = {"[e-mail]", "[e-mail]", "[e-mail]"};

String emailGroup[] = {java.net.URLEncoder.encode("Data&[e-mail]"), "[e-mail]", "[e-mail]"};

[Duc Vo]

Ed Carrington wrote:
None of the emails got sent because of the & issue with the first array value.
The email program does work if I eliminate the email with the &.

Here are my attempts:

String emailGroup[] = {"[e-mail]", "[e-mail]", "[e-mail]"};

String emailGroup[] = {java.net.URLEncoder.encode("Data&[e-mail]"), "[e-mail]", "[e-mail]"};

Can you elaborate this? My previous solution is only used in href of A tag. It has nothing to do with sending an email in Java.

[Ed Carrington]

I am using JavaMail to send the emails out and it always worked in the past.
The & is the issue that is causing it to now work now. How do I handle that character in my String array using JavaMail?

[Duc Vo]

JavaMail should have no problem with "&" character, which is a valid character of an email address.

What is your code? (i.e. how did you set the recipients to the message?)
what was the error? (i.e. exception occur somewhere or some recipients received emails, some didn't?)