Safelinks in Outlook 365 are horrendous. Is there a reason why they put the full link into the text body?
I mean, is there a reason they aren't like this:
<html>
<head />
<body>
<a href="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/">https://www.originallink.com/</a>
</body>
</html>
so you can parse the original link whilst still being 'protected'? Is there a option to display them like this, rather than just turning off Safelinks altogether?
You can develop VBA macro or COM add-in where you could replace hyperlinks with your own format. For that you need to handle the
NewMailExevent of the OutlookApplicationclass which is fired for every received item that is processed by Microsoft Outlook. The item can be one of several different item types, for example,MailItem,MeetingItem, orSharingItem. TheEntryIDsCollectionstring contains the Entry ID that corresponds to that item.The
NewMailExevent fires when a new message arrives in the Inbox and before client rule processing occurs. Use the Entry ID returned in theEntryIDCollectionstring to call the NameSpace.GetItemFromID method and process the item.In the event handle you have access to the
HTMLBodyproperty where you can find all hyperlinks and do the required replacements.