Re: Constructing a mailto: link

[Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/17/06, Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rob,
>
> If you want to force the sent email to look a certain way, you'll be
> better off writing a program to send the email formatted the way you
> want. About the only thing you can count on working in mailto links is
> that the email address will get set. Setting the subject line works for
> most email clients. Beyond that, it's a crap shot.

Agreed.  If they are filling out a form, the form response should be
sent directly from the server rather than popping up their mail
client.  That will avoid the issue of publishing the email address as
well.

> What type of server is this? If it's an AS/400 or iSeries, I have
> Net.Data samples that send email. If it's a Windows or Unix/Linux box,
> it should be easy enough to find samples (you'll need to know what you
> have access to language-wise) to do what you want.

Giovanni Perotti created a companion to CGIDEV2 for email, using the
QtmmSendMail API.
http://www-922.ibm.com/mmail/start

There are a gazillion other ways to get the iSeries to send an email,
and the issue has been beaten to death on midrange-l, and on this list
as well I think.  I seem to recall some discussions about sending mail
through MSF that whizzed by my ear a few weeks ago.

There may even be a way (API calls perhaps) to use Domino directly.

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx