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

I have a similar desire to include URLs in email messages that are NOT rendered as links. I'm trying to discourage users from clicking links in email as a security measure, but I haven't yet found a way to tell them what to type (or cut-and-paste) into their browser without the information being rendered as a link. I think it would be OK to just leave off the "http : //"; however, my URLs tend to be https.