I am creating an email going out to internal users with the following code that has a link to an internal directory:

<a href="\\abc\123">\\abc\123</a>

And for whatever reason, the mail that comes in shows:

\\abc\123 and the link points to /abc/123

I am suspecting Exchange Server of somehow altering the mail message to make it less "dangerous", but I am really stuck here since this is a network address, going to internal users! When they click the link it doesn't show the directory.

Any help would be much appreciated!