mailto: and outlook express

[Marshall Dudley]

We have an "href=mailto:" that works fine with Netscape and Eudora, but
fails with customers that are using Outlook Express. The link has a
number of email addresses in it seperated by commas. IE:

<a href="Jim Jones <[email protected]>, Jimmy Carter <[email protected]>, Me Too
<[email protected]">click here to send these customers emails</a>

When the email program pops up, all the names are in the TO: field as
they should be except if the customer is using Outlook Express, in which
case it loses all the email addresses except the first one.

Does anyone know a workaround for this bug in Outlook? Unfortunately the
customer this code was written specifically for uses Outlook Express,
and I cannot test it because it is our policy to not put any software on
our computers that are known to be security risks.

Marshall

 

[René]

Does anyone know a workaround for this bug in Outlook?

First, make up your mind whether you're talking about Outlook or Outlook
Express.
Second, what would you mean by "We have a link"? Are you talking about a
webpage; if so, what editor are you using; and if not, then what?

 

[Brian Tillman]

We have an "href=mailto:" that works fine with Netscape and Eudora,
but fails with customers that are using Outlook Express.

This is not an Outlook Express newsgroup. Post your quesiton there.

The link
has a number of email addresses in it seperated by commas. IE:

<a href="Jim Jones <[email protected]>, Jimmy Carter <[email protected]>, Me
Too <[email protected]">click here to send these customers emails</a>

That's not a legal mailto URL. Better go read the HTML documents.