Protect your Magic Links from email clients
Blog post from Nhost
Incorporating email verification and password reset capabilities in user authentication projects is crucial, but challenges arise due to advancements in email clients that can disrupt the integrity of embedded links, such as Magic Links, potentially rendering them invalid. To address this, it's recommended to avoid sending Magic Links directly in emails. Instead, the strategy involves redirecting users to a specific page within the application containing the necessary parameters in the URL, ensuring that only real users trigger the redirection to the authentication service endpoint. This approach, which involves editing the email template and creating an additional page in the app, maintains link validity across different email clients and can also be applied to other scenarios like email verification and one-time file downloads.