Short answer, yes you can do that. Long answer, it’s taking a huge
risk that the end-user’s computer is set up correctly, that the end
user is savvy enough to realize what has happened and to press Send
when they’re done filling in the details of the message. Forms also
don’t expose your real e-mail address to all the zombies out there in
the intertubes.
If you really, really want to do this, you can create a link like this:
mailto:you(a)example.com?Subject=Contact%20From%20The%20Web&Body=This%20is%20the%20body
.
Note that in the line above, I replaced the @ sign with a (a) so that
the Web forum wouldn’t turn the address into email@hidden and confuse
things. You’re making a URL here, so all spaces have to be escaped
with %20, other special characters like returns and certain
punctuation also need to also be escaped. I have a tool on line that
can translate this for you.
http://freewaypro.com/mailto
Don’t go crazy here – there is a real hard limit to the length of a
URL that IE will understand. Other browsers go on to ridiculous,
Tolstoy-like lengths, but poor crippled IE falls over and plays dead
after about 800 characters.
Some mail applications won’t let you populate the body like this, only
the subject. You’ll have to experiment.
Seriously, use the Forms, Luke. It’s better all around.
Walter
On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:11 PM, SkipII wrote:
First question is does Freeway have anything itself?
Can I just have a hyperlink on the contact page that opens up a mail
server pre-addressed to me?
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