We want to put a link on our site “Subscribe”, when you click this link this is the href
href="mailto:subscriber@org.com&subject=i want to subscribe?body=whatever"
This works great, it’s super easy too, but the problem is for anyone who does not have outlook/outlook express installed.
Without real development of any new features is it possible to make this work for gmail/yahoo/aol/etc…. email users?
The
mailtoURL scheme works in all browsers and only in email clients that support it.In essence, when clicked it will launch the default email client on the computer and set the to address, subject and body.
You can’t make it work in a web based email client, since they can’t be set as default email clients.