Hello Folks,
It’s been quite a while I haven’t word pressing. I wanted to take some time out to blog a few helpful coding tips & tricks that I am coming across these days.
A few days back, my colleague had a requirement on opening a Outlook email using simple javascript which also includes a attachment to the outlook email. Well google’ing a bit found the answer to do so, but including a attachment to that is being hosted on a different server (OnBase Document Server) was a challenge.
Clicking this button below opens the Mail Draft Dialog Window (Mail is a default application for eMails in Mac OSX) / Outlook Draft Dialog Window (if Windows OS), with user set TO (sent by) email address, Subject Line (Outlook takes in maximum of 255 characters on Subject Line), Message Body. Note that the FROM (received from) email address will be decided by the default account set in Mail App/Outlook App.
<a href="mailto:rc@rakeshchouhan.com?subject=Test%20Mail-To-Talk"></a>
The user agent interpreting a mailto URL SHOULD choose not to create a message if any of the headers are considered dangerous; it may also choose to create a message with only a subset of the headers given in the URL. Only the Subject, Keywords, and Body headers are believed to be both safe and useful.
Conclusion:
mailto: only supports header values or text/plain content.
Happy learning 🙂
chouhans 