# email
**URL:** https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email/691
**Category:** Freeway
**Created:** [February 10, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email/691 "2008-02-10T18:05:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Brian\_Carlick](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Brian_Carlick)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email/691/1 "2008-02-10T18:05:26Z")
Two questions re email:
1. I want to create a “contact” graphic button so that when people click on it it opens their mail prog and they can send me an email,
2. Instead of a contact button, they can do the same but with an email address
How do I do these please?
Brian G5, FWPro
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### Author:  [@waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/waltd)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email/691/2 "2008-02-10T18:16:48Z")
Two answers. One, to do this, simply select ‘mailto’ as the link type
in the External tab of the Hyperlink dialog. Two, don’t do this. I
really does work, but it also has the effect of opening up the spam
pipes full tilt. Your address will be added, within minutes, to the
global list of addresses which then get “interesting” unsolicited
offers.
There are lots of better ways to do this. One would be Tim Plumb’s
PHP Feedback Form Action. Another would be (if you insist on keeping
the e-mail link thing, then use Tim’s Anti Spam Action). I am
personally in favor of forms, they really really work to keep the
amount of unsolicited stuff to a low roar. Freeway 5 automatically
recognizes e-mail addresses whenever you type them and uses entity
encoding to disguise them, which is similar to what Anti-spam does.
[http://freewayactions.com](http://freewayactions.com)
Walter
On Feb 10, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Brian Carlick wrote:
> Two questions re email:
>
> 1. I want to create a “contact” graphic button so that when people
> click on it it opens their mail prog and they can send me an email,
>
> 2. Instead of a contact button, they can do the same but with an
> email address
>
> How do I do these please?
> Brian G5, FWPro
>
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### Author:  [@Keith\_Martin](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Keith_Martin)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email/691/3 "2008-02-10T18:42:01Z")
Sometime around 10/2/08 (at 13:05 -0500) Brian Carlick said:
> Two questions re email:
>
> 1. I want to create a “contact” graphic button so that when people
> click on it it opens their mail prog and they can send me an email,
1. Select your graphic
2. Choose Edit \> Hyperlink
3. Click the External tab
4. Cick “mailto:” from the Protocol popup menu
5. Type the email address after the text that’s entered into the main
text field.
6. Preview your page and click the graphic. Your email client will
open with a new email message set up and addressed correctly.
> 1. Instead of a contact button, they can do the same but with an email address
You mean some text? Just select the text, then follow the above steps
beginning with step 2.
But remember that the visitor will still have to actually _send_ the
email after completing it. If this is a ‘contact me’ link that’s
probably fine, but do bear this in mind.
Another point - one that is MUCH more important - is the fact that
putting an email address into a web page in this manner makes it
vulnerable to spammers scraping the code of pages, looking for new
email address victims. DO take this seriously.
I STRONGLY advise that you use some process to scramble the address
so that it is obscured in the raw HTML code but is interpreted
correctly in the browser. There are web sites that can do this, but
for Freeway the best solution is Tim Plumb’s Anti Spam action, $10
from [http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=002](http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=002)
Just apply it to the page and relax.
k
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### Author:  [@Keith\_Martin](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Keith_Martin)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email/691/4 "2008-02-10T18:46:44Z")
Sometime around 10/2/08 (at 13:16 -0500) Walter Lee Davis said:
> Freeway 5 automatically
> recognizes e-mail addresses whenever you type them and uses entity
> encoding to disguise them, which is similar to what Anti-spam does.
> [http://freewayactions.com](http://freewayactions.com)
That, I missed. Very nice, thanks for pointing that out. 🙂
k
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### Author:  [@Brian\_Carlick](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Brian_Carlick)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/email/691/5 "2008-02-17T17:22:06Z")
Waltd and Keith
Thanks for the replies, sorry I am a bit late in replying, ill mother…
Point taken about spammers and email addresses, I will not be putting the email address in the page, but just use a “contact me” button, and thanks for pointing me to Tim Plumbs page.
I have another query but new thread!
Brian
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