How to disable an email link?

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3 and I would like to disable an email address link in a HTML email.

For example, if in an email I send some raw HTML like

Answer 1

I have a more natural suggestion: wrap the email/url in an anchor hyperlink.

<a name="myname">test@email.com</a>

Since the text is already wrapped in a hyperlink, Gmail gives up and leave it alone. :)

(Note: also worked for Apple mail client.)