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Skype link in email Signature does not work on gmail client

I have an email signature in which all links work fine in every email client, except for one skype:

<span>Skype:</span> <span><a href="skype:jared.rake?add">Jared.Rake</a></span>

The link works as intended (launches the skype client) on all mail clients except gmail. Any idea why this is?

  • I have a skype client installed on my system.
  • When you check the span tag (the one that contains the name, I can see the link tag ( <a> ), but I do not see the href attribute.

Any help would be appreciated.

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I already see the correct answer, but I want to make it clearer: You can create a simple link "http: //" that will lead to your link "skype: profile_name? Add". And this http: // link works fine in any email subscription. Even in GMail.

But not all shorts will work correctly. I tested it with http://is.gd/ and it works great!

So you need to:

  • Go to http://is.gd/
  • shorten your skype link: jared.rake? add and get http: // link
  • use this http: // link in your email
  • profit!:)
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Most likely this is because you are not using a real url as the href value. If it works for everything except Gmail, then this is probably a support problem in Gmail that causes problems. If there is no URL-based value that you could use instead, then you might be out of luck.

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Gmail removes skype-like URLs: jared.rake? add

So ... make tinyURL pointing to your Skype URL and instead link to tinyURL :)

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In addition, if you want to re-link your link to Skype, you can use a subdomain that redirects to your is.gd link so that your links are branded. I created a post about this here: http://meerkat.link/skype-in-gmail-sig-using-isgd

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