I have exactly the same problem - the links in the email specify port 443 but use http instead of https.

If the smtp settings in the web config are set to "enableSsl" then no notifications are sent at all!

I know this is an old topic but I am experiencing the same problem with Umbraco version 7.4.2 assembly: 1.0.5921.28477 . Has anybody found a solution to this?

The link in the automated mail is pointing to http instead of https even though I use a SSL certificate for Umbraco.

Link: http://mydomainname:443/umbraco/#/content/content/edit/7158

Thanks in advance.

I found a solution to my problem after digging more into the Umbraco-CMS source code. I hope it helps other developers as well.

All I did was changing the following key to "true" in the web.config, this was set to "false" before.

<appSettings>
...
  <add key="umbracoUseSSL" value="true" />
...
 </appSettings>

After this change, umbraco started to create notification emails with the correct button link urls as shown below:

(https://mydomainname:443/umbraco/#/content/content/edit/7158)

For more details please continue to read:

Please click here for Umbraco documentation for umbracoUseSSL parameter.

If you click here, you will see the source code for Umbraco's NotificationService.cs. In this class if you go to Line 399, you will see how umbraco gets the protocol value.

string protocol = GlobalSettings.UseSSL ? "https" : "http";

If you search for GlobalSettings in the Github repository, then you will find this in src/Umbraco.Web/WebApi/Filters/UmbracoUseHttps.cs.

using GlobalSettings = Umbraco.Core.Configuration.GlobalSettings;

And as the last step if you view the Umbraco.Core.Configuration source code, then you can find UseSSL method. As you can see, all you need to do is update the "umbracoUseSSL" key value in your web.config.

 /// <summary>
        /// Gets a value indicating whether umbraco should force a secure (https) connection to the backoffice.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value><c>true</c> if [use SSL]; otherwise, <c>false</c>.</value>
        public static bool UseSSL
        {
            get
            {
                try
                {
                    return bool.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["umbracoUseSSL"]);
                }
                catch
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }

Happy coding.

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