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Posted by jim evans on 09/09/05 23:18
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:53:10 +0100, Toby Inkster
<usenet200509@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
>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?
I posted this question here because HTMLers use mailto: more than most
people. I'm not using it on the web, I'm using it in a program of
mine and I'm using it to send diagnostic data. When the program
encounters errors, I collect diagnostic data and want to send it to me
in an email. The users are usually clueless about how to find files
in directories and attach them to email. I decided the easiest way to
do it was to put the diagnostic information in the body of an email,
then all the user has to do is click "Send" But, it's turned into
such a PITA I'm about to give it up.
jim
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