We have a transport rule on the Exchange Server to add signatures to outgoing emails for certain people.
The rule description is like this:
Apply rule to messages
from a member of 'some people'
'append' '
<br/>
<hr/>
some text for the signature.' and fallback to 'wrap' if unable to apply.
Now the problem is, if there is a custom protocol hyperlink within the email, after the email is sent, the hyperlink will be removed from the email.
For example, for this email content:
Line1 <a href="abc:address1">text 1</a>
Line 2 <a href="http:address2">text 2</a>
After this email is sent, the hyperlink for text 1 will be stripped out. Whoever receives the email will see it like this (text 1 is still a hyperlink, but pointing to nowhere, and no problem for text2):
Line1 <a href="">text 1</a>
Line 2 <a href="http:address2">text 2</a>
(horizontal line)
some text for the signature.
Can anybody help to figure out how to get around this? Is this a bug on Exchange Server?