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  • From: "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Mailto links not rendering in gmail
  • Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:38:09 +0200

On 04/07/2017 07:17 PM, Casey Workman (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:
> I have a list setup to send out moderation message but when the user gets
> the message via gmail the mailto link is not
> rendered as a hotlink. The link is there in gmail...
>
> <mailto:address@concealed
> <mailto:address@concealed>?subject=DISTRIBUTE%20casey-test%20b81064ee3644ec41bfdfa70f6d99b0c1>
>
> But the whole link is not clickable. The "address@concealed
> <mailto:address@concealed>" portion is, you can click it
> and it will work as a regular mailto link should work. But it doesn't pick
> up the subject portion of the link. I have
> messed around with the moderate.tt2 file and tried several different ways
> to order the info, but nothing really gets the
> job done. Is this an issue with gmail and their web interface?

As far as I know, the correct HTML syntax for a mailto link would be:

<a
mailto="address@concealed?subject=DISTRIBUTE%20casey-test%20b81064ee3644ec41bfdfa70f6d99b0c1">

See also:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML/Creating_hyperlinks#Specifying_details

Regards
Racke


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