how to open outlook on click of email hyperlink

Question

I have a table in which one column is an email address. I need to add a hyperlink to this email address, so that clicking it opens outlook with the email address in TO: field.

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Try this

 <a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=ABC&Body=Body" title="title" >Email</a>

Here ABC is Subject and email content is body.

Answer 2

You can just use an href similar to the following (example [email protected] email address used):

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>

When the user clicks the link, their default email client will be opened.

For more advanced options such as subject lines, cc, bcc, etc, see these links: link 1 link 2 link 3. Normally mailto is a bit of a red flag for spammers, so if this is a public website then consider a link to a form with a capcha instead.

EDIT:

Try clicking Send Mail at this link and let us know what happens. This will indicate if the problem is with the markup or the system.

You might also want to make sure that there is a default mail program assigned for that computer. You didn't indicate OS, but if you are using Windows 8 then follow this link and set Outlook as the default. Otherwise, do the equivalent for your OS.

If all else fails try re-installing Outlook.