Mailto with email form

[Guest]

Hopefully, this shouldn't be a difficult question to answer. Currently, I have a mailto link button "mailto:[email protected]?subject=From your website". Clicking on that link pops up the viewer's default mail client (i.e., Outlook). What I would like to do is have an email form page linked to the same button. That way, the users who use webbased email (i.e., hotmail) can fill in the email form instead. I guess what I'm asking is how can I have two links on one button?

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi,

You can't.

BTW, using mailto link is inviting spam havesters. You may wish to take a look at SpamStopper at
http://www.websunlimited.com/order/Product/SpamStopper/spam_stopper_help_dir.htm
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Hopefully, this shouldn't be a difficult question to answer. Currently, I have a mailto link button

"mailto:[email protected]?subject=From your website". Clicking on that link pops up the viewer's default mail client (i.e.,
Outlook). What I would like to do is have an email form page linked to the same button. That way, the users who use webbased email
(i.e., hotmail) can fill in the email form instead. I guess what I'm asking is how can I have two links on one button?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

The last time this question was asked, the answer was given that it can't be
done.
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Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
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| Hopefully, this shouldn't be a difficult question to answer. Currently, I
have a mailto link button "mailto:[email protected]?subject=From your
website". Clicking on that link pops up the viewer's default mail client
(i.e., Outlook). What I would like to do is have an email form page linked
to the same button. That way, the users who use webbased email (i.e.,
hotmail) can fill in the email form instead. I guess what I'm asking is how
can I have two links on one button?

 

[Guest]

I thought Mr. Gates was going to get rid of all the spam. So, it shouldn't be a problem for long, should it? In the interim, I'm using this anti-spam email address script

http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHTML_scripts/javascripts/javascript_120.htm

Also, I think I solved my double-link problem. First, I added the mailto link within the interactive button properties. Then, I added a "go to URL" behavior to the button that takes users to the form.

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Mr. Gates isn't going to get rid of spam anytime soon. Not any more than
Bugs Bunny will.

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Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
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| I thought Mr. Gates was going to get rid of all the spam. So, it
shouldn't be a problem for long, should it? In the interim, I'm using this
anti-spam email address script:
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|
http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHTML_scripts/javascripts/javascript_120.html
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| Also, I think I solved my double-link problem. First, I added the mailto
link within the interactive button properties. Then, I added a "go to URL"
behavior to the button that takes users to the form.

 

[Andrew Murray]

use the mailform handler in frontpage....use a third party script, or use just a
play <a href="mailto">..... as an email link.

If you want an email to be sent via a form (without opening the client mail
software then a thirdparty asp or perl/cgi script or the frontpage form handler
(requires frontpage extensions) should do it.

Hopefully, this shouldn't be a difficult question to answer. Currently, I have

a mailto link button "mailto:[email protected]?subject=From your website".
Clicking on that link pops up the viewer's default mail client (i.e., Outlook).
What I would like to do is have an email form page linked to the same button.
That way, the users who use webbased email (i.e., hotmail) can fill in the email
form instead. I guess what I'm asking is how can I have two links on one button?

 

[Andrew Murray]

True, but within 5 or 10 years or something, I thought was the timeframe.

I thought Mr. Gates was going to get rid of all the spam. So, it shouldn't be

a problem for long, should it? In the interim, I'm using this anti-spam email
address script:

http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHTML_scripts/javascripts/javascript_120.html

Also, I think I solved my double-link problem. First, I added the mailto link

within the interactive button properties. Then, I added a "go to URL" behavior
to the button that takes users to the form.

 

[Andrew Murray]

be vewy vewy quiet!....I'm hunting spammers!