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Jennifer_Bisho1
Level 4
October 7, 2016
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Unsubscribe link disappears in Outlook versions

  • October 7, 2016
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So we outsource some of our email design to another agency and they somehow managed to override the unsubscribe link in 3 versions of Outlook and now it does not show up at all.  Does anyone have any idea how that could happen?  The unsubscribe code is built into Marketo and automatically gets added to our emails when they send, so we never have to add any extra unsubscribe code to our email templates.

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Best answer by Jim_Thao7

This code looks pretty bad from a format perspective. I took a quick look and by deducing, it's the conditional MS statements in your footer, both of them combined.  You may want to restrategize and recode both.  I would recommend that you tidy it up first so that you know what you're dealing with. 

If you take them both out, you will see that your unsub will be automatically appended <--- that's how you know the issue is in those 2 statements.

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Jim_Thao7
Level 8
October 7, 2016

they either hid it with CSS or they used the system unsub token which automatically disables the unsubscribe link.  if they used the system unsub token, the unsub link is probably built directly into your email already. 

Jennifer_Bisho1
Level 4
October 7, 2016

They didn't do either :/

October 7, 2016

Something else I've seen happen is that they set the height of the <html> and <body> elements to 100%, which pushes the Marketo default unsubscribe link out of view in certain email clients. If you'd like, post your code up here and we can review.

Jennifer_Bisho1
Level 4
October 7, 2016

They didn't do that either unfortunately.  We pushed back on them to fix it so hopefully they can!  If not I will definitely post up the code here, thanks

Josh_Hill13
Level 10
October 8, 2016

Yes, I've seen this happen. Our coder knew how to fix it, unfortunately I don't recall the thing he did. I believe it was  CSS and outlook rendering issue.