HTML email link color dilemma

Question

I designed an HTML email and I am having the following issues: First my entire design is based on a blue color so any blue text will not be readable by the reader/user, text

Answer 1

OWA is actually stripping all the styles of the a-tag, including that of the span-tag you included. You can add styles in the head part, but again, OWA is ignoring this for hyperlinks. I added a style for a, a:link, a:visited in the head, the same color as in the a-tag and the including span-tag. The result? My linktext is colored but the underlining is still the default blue. The clue: there's no clue for me.