Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 09/28/07 07:39

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Paul Ponzelli" <begone@spam.com>
writing in news:13fpba86rvps30a@corp.supernews.com:

> I have a link in a Web page that causes the Email program (Outlook
> Express)

On your machine - my machine uses Pegasus mail.

> to launch a new message when the user clicks on the
> hyperlink.

Please understand this is not always going to work. Some visitors may
not have an email client (or it's not configured). They may have web
mail only, or they are at an Internet Cafe, or library, or someone
else's computer.

> To accomplish this, I'm using an HTML tag of the form:
>
> <A href="mailto:name@xyz.net">name</A>

Wow! You're xyz.net! You know, of course, that is a real domain and
someone owns it, although I doubt it's you. Please use example.com,
that's what it was set up for.

>
> I would like to have this tag add fixed text to both the "Subject" box
> and the message body of the Email when the user clicks the hyperlink.

It's not reliable - it never works in my email client, and I'm sure
there are others that also don't work.

> Is there a way to do this?
>

Even if you did this, the user may not want to use what you suggest as a
subject line.

You are really better off using a server side form, and putting your
email address on the page.

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