Sending emails with Javascript

Question

The way I'm doing it now is basically like this:

The HTML:

<textarea id="myText">
    Lorem ipsum...
</textarea>
<button onclick="sendMail(); return false">Send</button>

The Javascript:

function sendMail() {
    var link = "mailto:[email protected]"
             + "[email protected]"
             + "&subject=" + encodeURIComponent("This is my subject")
             + "&body=" + encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById('myText').value)
    ;
    
    window.location.href = link;
}

This, surprisingly, works rather well. The only problem is that if the body is particularly long (somewhere over 2000 characters), then it just opens a new email but there's no information in it. I suspect that it'd be to do with the maximum length of the URL being exceeded.

Here's the way doing it using jQuery and an "element" to click on :

$('#element').click(function(){
    $(location).attr('href', 'mailto:?subject='
                             + encodeURIComponent("This is my subject")
                             + "&body=" 
                             + encodeURIComponent("This is my body")
    );
});

Then, you can get your contents either by feeding it from input fields (ie. using $('#input1').val() or by a server side script with $.get('...'). Have fun

You don't need any javascript, you just need your href to be coded like this:

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

You can use this free service: https://www.smtpjs.com

1. Include the script:

<script src="https://smtpjs.com/v2/smtp.js"></script>

2. Send an email using:

Email.send(
  "[email protected]",
  "[email protected]",
  "This is a subject",
  "this is the body",
  "smtp.yourisp.com",
  "username",
  "password"
);