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October 4, 2000 Extending the mailto: URL  Tips: October 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The mailto:
URL lets you preformat a message by supplying the address of the party you're
sending a message to, the subject, who should be copied (cc) or blind-copied (bcc), and the body of the message. The simplest, most common use of the mailto:
URL is to specify the address where the message should be sent::
If you want to specify other properties of the mail message, you can add them to the URL as name/value pairs (
and in HTML code:
Your Feedback is Always Appreciated. On Mac, IE has difficulties in parsing thebcc parameter and appends it to the cc value. When you click on the above link, for example, the cc address will show up on the new mail window as yehuda@internet.com&bcc. Avoid the bcc parameter on this system/browsercombination. This tip is not relevant to Lotus Notes (the address field is OK).
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