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So I want to make a HTML news letter to be sent out. I want to make a "Forward to Friend" button, but how would I link that?
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The short answer is that you can't. Email clients don't provide a way for emails to trigger their Forward functionality.
Forward an e-mail message Access your e-mail account or client program. Open the e-mail message you want to forward. In the menu bar, usually found at the top of the e-mail message or client program window, click the Forward option.
You can apply the following settings to forward the message in HTML format: “Settings” -> “Preferences” tab -> “Composing Messages” -> “Compose HTML messages” -> Select “on forward or reply to HTML message” under “Compose HTML messages” and save.
The little trick I use is to leave the "mailto" part blank, and then in the the "body" section put in a link that points to an online archive of the html email I just sent them.
Like this: mailto:?Subject=Subject%20From%20My%20Original%20Email&body=Link%20To%20Online%20Archive%20of%20Original%20Email:%20http://www.bing.com/
In outlook, link is automatically turned into a hyperlink AND their cursor defaults to the "To" field because it's the only thing left blank.
I did this as a quick work around until we code a landing page for them to fill out a form and enter their friends email address, etc. This way if anyone comes across a link to our archived email on our SITE, they'll have the handy link in it to auto-open their email for them and start a message to their friend(s).
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