Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 10/11/07 08:11

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed ramesh.thangamani@gmail.com
writing in news:1192089959.719537.31310@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

> On Oct 10, 7:40 pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed ramesh.thangam...@gmail.com
>> writing innews:1192010546.910778.245250@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
>>
>> > Can anyone please tell me if there is any restriction on size of
>> > mailto link or the number of email ids it can have. Because
>> > currently in my application i am observing that email all is not
>> > working when there are 142 ids, but it works when there are about
>> > 70 ids. Also Netscape email client works fine for 142 email ids. Is
>> > there some restriction on email clients or mailto has some
>> > restriction?
>>
>> Not sure, but I know that some SMTP servers check the number of
>> recipients for spamming.
>>
>> If you are doing <a
>> href="mailto:ma...@example.com,ma...@example.com,etc"> Mail Us</a>,
>> such a long list could be breaking the user's email client. Better to
>> do it server side and set up forwarding on the mail server.
>>
>
> Thanks Adrienne so i guess we shouldn't use mailto unless we know that
> the list is going to be pretty simple.
>

It should be something like:
<h1>Contact Information</h1>
<p>ACME Widgets<br>
123 Any Street<br>
Any Town Any Province<br>
Any Country<br>
<a href="mailto:mailbox@example.com">mailbox@example.com</a>
</p>

This will work for people who have an email client available. It will
also work for those who want to copy and paste (if they are using web
based email, etc.)

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