Richard wrote:
Hi, the following snippet of HTML works fine for standard email clients
but does not do so for web based email:-
<A
HREF="mailto:so*****@nodename.demon.co.uk?subject= Freecycle%20Extension%2
0Help%20File:-%20">Contact Me</A>
Is there a script that would ensure that I can compose an email complete
with address, subject line and some body text that will indeed work with
gmail, hotmail and so on please?
mailto: protocol calls the _default_ mail client thus the mail client
set in the browser registry. It doesn't mean "the used mail client".
Say with the default Windows installation it will be Microsoft
Exchange, even if user never used it and even didn't know of its
existence. In such case by clicking on mailto link she will get the
prompt to set up Microsoft Exchange profile - to her major surprise.
In say IE the program launched while clicking on mailto link is defined
by Tools Internet Options Programs E-mail setting. On IE it
allows to choose Hotmail as well but by my observations average users
very rarely bother to change anything in their Internet Options,
especially in the default programs section.