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From: "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com>
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Subject: Re: html contact email
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:28:36 -0500
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On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:16:28 -0700 (PDT), jans wrote:
> What is wrong with sending email through HTML?  For example,
> 				<br />Customer Service
> 				<br /><a href="mailto:orders@tonbobio.com" title="Email Tonbo Customer Service">orders@tonbobio.com</a>
> 				
> 				
> This is just a random example I found on the internet but I like this
> format with the anchor and a customer is claiming it only sporadically
> works on my page. The page extension was php but I only had one
> included page, so I copied that page into my page and changed the
> extension to html.
>
> If the page extension was php instead of html would that cause my
> email to only work sporadically? Is there a way to format php sendmail
> without it being in a form just a simple email address in an anchor?
> Thanks,

The mailto: reference type is a client-side process and depends on the
client side having a mail user agent defined to the operating system
somehow. PHP is not involved in this, at all.

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