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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 19:51:18 +0200

On 04/12/2017 07:06 PM, Alan Hicks (via sympa-users Mailing List) wrote:
> On 12/04/2017 16:38, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Clickable mailto is an ordinary link
> <a href='mailto:address@concealed'>Email me</a>
>
> So your example should be
> <a
> href="mailto:address@concealed?subject=DISTRIBUTE%20casey-test%20b81064ee3644ec41bfdfa70f6d99b0c1";>mailto:address@concealed</a>
>
>

Right, thanks for the correction to the correction :-).

Regards
Racke

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