Subect setting in Mailto:

[John Baker]

HI;

Quick question: How do I specify an email subject when using the setup

<a href="mailto:do **@cats.com">Ma il to the cat</a>

Can someone show me how it would look if the subject was "mice"?

Thanks a lot

John Baker

[Adrienne]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed John Baker <Ba******@Veriz on.net>
writing in news:n9******** *************** *********@4ax.c om:

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Philip Ronan <in*****@invali d.invalid> wrote:

"Mark Parnell" wrote:

The original link above assumes though that everyone who wants to
send "Mail to the cat" wants it to be about mice.

Oooh, how impudent! :-D

Just to clarify:

I have a web site where people sign up for various events, but the
actual e-mails go to only three people. They need the name associated
with the button click because there may be one of a dozen events
involved. If the event is about mice (and the button says "Click here
to sign up for the event about mice"), they want the subject to say
mice, and if the event is about rats they want it to say rats. That way
they can easily categorize the e-mail (automatically) and respond to
it.

Best

John

As previously mentioned, this sort of link is unreliable for several
reasons:
1. If the user does not have an email client, web based email users, users
at an Internet Cafe or library, at someone else's computer, etc.
2. The user can still change the subject of the email. You may have set
the subject to "mice", and the user can change it to "men". Now the
recipient has to futz with it.
3. Some email clients don't recognize that form of mailto, and skip the
subject all together.

You're better off doing it server side.
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[Philip Ronan]

"Adrienne" wrote:

As previously mentioned, this sort of link is unreliable for several
reasons:
1. If the user does not have an email client, web based email users, users
at an Internet Cafe or library, at someone else's computer, etc.
That's totally irrelevant. The OP wanted to know how to add a subject line
to a mailto URI. If you must go on about the evils of mailto links, please
do it in another thread.
2. The user can still change the subject of the email. You may have set
the subject to "mice", and the user can change it to "men". Now the
recipient has to futz with it.
Indeed. And with an ordinary mailto link, the user could edit the email
address and cause the email to be sent somewhere else altogether. But so
what?
3. Some email clients don't recognize that form of mailto, and skip the
subject all together.

Can you back this up? I think probably not. Subject fields in mailto URIs
were already in use long before rfc2368 came out

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[Chris Sharman]

Adrienne wrote:

3. Some email clients don't recognize that form of mailto, and skip the
subject all together.

You're better off doing it server side.

I've heard this alleged on several occasions, but I've never discovered
any browser/email client combinations which fail with ?subject= and
succeed without.

Is it a historical Netscape 2 kind of thing?

Can anyone furnish a list of email clients and/or browsers which exhibit
this behaviour ?

Similarly for ?body=blah or ?subject=what&b ody=that%20page ?
I've seen claims that there's a limit of 256 characters, and that
newlines (even escaped) aren't always well handled, but there's (as
ever) a lot of rubbish written, and I'd quite like to see an
authoritative statement on what issues exist around use of
mailto:...?subj ect=
That's both real world issues and specification issues.

And html links (<a href="mailto:.. .">) shouldn't be confused with html
form actions, where several browsers (anyone got a list) support mailto
in some way, but the spec doesn't.

Thanks
Chris

[L�ʻie Techie]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:35:13 +0000, John Baker wrote:

HI;

Quick question: How do I specify an email subject when using the setup

<a href="mailto:do **@cats.com">Ma il to the cat</a>
Quick question: Whose bright idea is it to have the cat's email address
be do**@cats.com ?
Can someone show me how it would look if the subject was "mice"?

Thanks a lot

John Baker

If you have access to the server, I would create mail aliases which
automatically get forwarded to the people interested in that event. For
example, have mo*******@yourd omain.com for any correspondence about mouse
races.

aloha,
La'ie Techie