Using a "mailto: " link

[Serious_Practitioner]

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide to this neophyte...

Using FP2003; site is hosted on a Unix server with latest version of
Apache...

I would like to create a "mail to: " link, but in addition to opening the
user's e-mail client and filling in the recipient's e-mail address, I would
like to place some text in the BODY, not the subject, of the message. The
purpose of this is to allow people to automatically subscribe to a mailing
list that comes with the hosting package. The mailing list software wants
the text "subscribe/nameoflist" to appear in the body of the e-mail. This
way, the users can sign up automatically and leave me out of the process.

I've read through the information I have (a big fat reference book on FP and
a book on HTML) and I don't see any reference to this being a possibility.
But it might be an unusual use, so I thought I'd ask the experts.

Many thanks.


Steve E.

 

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[clintonG]

The following includes all of the supported attributes...

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=New Article &body=Here's a good
one &[email protected] &[email protected]> Great Article Idea </a>

 

[Steve Easton]

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=&body=Text goes here">

the ?subject needs to be there even though the subject line will be blank.
To place text in the subject line also, simply add it like this:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=the subject&body=Text goes here">
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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[Serious_Practitioner]

My thanks go to each of you for your assistance. The problem is solved, and
I learned a few things as well. That makes it a pretty good day.


Steve E.