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Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to'

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On 15 Mar, Jim Nagel wrote in message
    <8d535f9557.jim@6.abbeypress.net>:

> Roger Darlington  wrote on 15 Mar:
> 
> > In my Wildflowerfinder website I have put the following line for readers
> > who wish to contact me: <a
> > href="mailto:rogerarm@freeuk.com?subject=Submitted%3A%20Unknown%20W
> > ildflower%20Photograph&body=Where%20Found:%0A%0DDate%20Found:%20%0A">
> ...
> > How do I make it work for whatever e-mail client folk are using? Does
> > the code need to be 3 pages long to work?
> 
> No need for "mailto" code or forms.  Since you have your own domain
> (wildflowerfinder.org.uk), why not just set up an address -- e.g.
> contact19a@wildflowerfinder.org.uk -- that you simply publish openly on
> your site.  The spambots will inevitably find it, but probably not for
> several months, whereupon you can just scrap that address and set up a
> different one.

That doesn't actually address Roger's question of how to have a link set up
the email details, however.

The short answer is that mailto: is supported differently by different email
clients, and that is always going to be the case. If you're collecting
specific data fields, a web form is very likely to be the way to go -- not
least because you can then validate what has been entered before accepting
it from the user.

> In the webhost's control panel, make this inital-contact address redirect
> to your "real" address.  Never publish the real address; you don't want
> spambots to see it.

The words "just set up an address" also hides a potential world of pain if
Roger doesn't currently have an email account on the wildflower domain.
Depending on what inbound mail checks are applied by FreeUK, mail forwarders
can be unreliable (in the sense of legitimate messages being detected as
spam and deleted, because they tickle DMARC in the wrong way).

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-15 07:45 +0000
  Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2019-03-15 09:12 +0000
    Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-03-15 09:54 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2019-03-15 11:08 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-03-15 11:29 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2019-04-06 18:18 +0100
        Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-04-07 10:16 +0100
          Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2019-04-07 19:12 +0100
            Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-04-09 21:33 +0100
  Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2019-03-15 23:41 +0000
    Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Roger Darlington <rogerarm@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-16 07:41 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2019-03-16 09:01 +0000
        Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2019-03-16 13:11 +0000
          Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Richard Darby <news@rjdarby.co.uk> - 2019-03-16 16:54 +0000
      Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2019-03-16 09:18 +0000
        Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2019-03-16 10:30 +0000
          Re: HTML code f / OT jammy Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2019-03-16 12:42 +0000
    Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-03-16 10:19 +0000
  Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2019-03-16 18:51 +0000
    Re: HTML code for 'send an e-mail to' Alex Macfarlane Smith <nospam@archifishal.co.uk> - 2019-03-17 21:43 +0000

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