How do I stop Outlook from rendering an email address as a mailto: link?

Question

I am creating an HTML email to be sent to a user. If there is a valid email address to within an HTML email, Outlook will render it (normally helpfully) as a mailto: link.

Answer 1

Outlook doesn't recognize this pattern as an email: @[text]@[text].[text]

Thus adding before the email:

@**email**

and

in the tag will remove the mailto link.