E-Mail Links

[darckn1ght]

Hello,
Need assistance or advice please. Every one knows that
<a href="mailto:address@server">Send me Email</a> Will give you a link for sending mail. My problem is when someone clicks the link it sends them to Outlook or their internet service provider. I wish to have it direct them to their mail service of choice, or give an option to pick which I prefer to use. Is there any thing that can accomplish this?
Thank you, Darc

[jscheuer1]

If you mean something like hotmail, no. There is no way to know if a user has a web based email provider or not. That's one reason why you should generally avoid an email link like that. A better way to do it is to setup a form that will use your host or a third party to mail whatever the user fills out in the form, including their return address, to you.

This must be done on the server side using asp, PHP and/or formail. Third party providers of this type of service can make this fairly easy to setup. See:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=r2M&q=mail+forms&btnG=Search

[BLiZZaRD]

My problem is when someone clicks the link it sends them to Outlook or their internet service provider.


This happens because the user has this set up as their default mail program on their computer, and as John pointed out you can't control another persons computer or what programs they may or may not have installed.

I may have Outlook and Thunderbird and use only Thunderbird, but if I haven't set up Windows (or other OS) to see Thunderbird as my default mail client when I click a mailto: link the computer will open Outlook.

Its a user setting ;)

[xahx]

Hello,
Need assistance or advice please. Every one knows that
<a href="mailto:address@server">Send me Email</a> Will give you a link for sending mail. My problem is when someone clicks the link it sends them to Outlook or their internet service provider. I wish to have it direct them to their mail service of choice, or give an option to pick which I prefer to use. Is there any thing that can accomplish this?
Thank you, Darc


instead of <a href="mailto:address@server"> might want to try:

<a action="mailto:address@server">

let me know if it works..