use of mailto on websites.

[Guest]

I have a website which has a mailto back to me. The mailto was composed using
my Word 2003 using Vista. If I look up my website from my home computer I can
email out to myself on the mailto. If I go to the library, in two different
counties here in the uk, and try it, both of them come up 'Could not perform
this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed' Is
this 'client' on my computer, my host's computer, or the library computers?
Libraries will not be keen to have untraceable emailers - so can they enable
the refusal to send? Do businesses have these problems making sure their
communication paths actually work? Going into home registries seems rather
brave. David Barnes.

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

A mailto: link on a web page launches the email client on the local machine,
starts a new email and fills in the To: field with the mailto: address.
This will likely exclude computers in public places like Libraries. A
better solution would be to set the web page up with a contact form folks
fill out that is emailed to you by the web server, itself.

Hal
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