Posted by Toby Inkster on 09/09/05 09:53

jim evans wrote:

> I am trying to send a block of text in the body of an email using the
> mailto: &body method. Apparently there are various characters that
> cannot be included in a string you send this way. After fooling with
> it for an hour I figured out that one of them is the ampersand
> delimiter (&).

mailto:foo@example.com?subject=X%26Y&body=%22X%26Y%22+is+a+Coldplay+album

Using any of this stuff after the '?' is really stupid though. In many
situations it will break, and people may be unable to mail you; or if they
are able to mail you, they won't use the subject lines or body specified.

That said, if *I* wanted to e-mail *you*, what makes you think that *you*
should set the subject line? If I'm the one sending the e-mail, surely
only I know what the e-mail is about?

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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