Safari and most email clients have no hard limit (depends on available CPU and RAM) 2015 Web Browser Testing: Safari 705000000 2 minutes Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/601.1.56 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Safari/601.1.56 limited by 16GB RAM Firefox 268435455 20 seconds Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 limited … Read more
Okay, so I was able to get this working in Chrome on Mac. Your mileage may vary. Also, this is pretty hacky IMO, so it may not be worth it. Honestly this should exist as a setting within Chrome, and the behavior should be delegated to the website. E.g. Chrome should have an option: “[x] … Read more
No. Certainly not in most of the popular mail clients. I assume you are wanting to do this just to save time in your own mail client. I would certainly be annoyed with a website that tried to change my from or reply-to address, so I’d expect my mail client to ignore it. MAILTO is … Read more
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No, you can not add an attachment to a message with the mailto: URL scheme. mailto: only supports header values or text/plain content. See RFC 2368 for details.
No need for jQuery. And it isn’t necessary to open a new window. Protocols which doesn’t return HTTP data to the browser (mailto:, irc://, magnet:, ftp:// (<- it depends how it is implemented, normally the browser has an FTP client built in)) can be queried in the same window without losing the current content. In … Read more
@Dillie-O: Your answer put me in the right direction (I should have expected it to just be a registry change) and I got this working. But I’m going to mark this as the answer because I’m going to put some additional information that I found while working on this. The solution to this question really … Read more
The standard doesn’t define a maximum length, leaving implementation up to browsers and mail clients (See IETF RFC 2368). Microsoft products do have set limits: IE GET limit is 2,083 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427 Outlook express: 456 characters http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q182985/ Other browsers are likely to work up to lengths beyond that of a reasonable email body. The iPhone doesn’t … Read more
As described by RFC 6068, mailto allows you to specify subject and body, as well as cc fields. For example: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Subject&body=message%20goes%20here User doesn’t need to click a link if you force it to be opened with JavaScript window.location.href = “mailto:[email protected]?subject=Subject&body=message%20goes%20here”; Be aware that there is no single, standard way in which browsers/email clients handle mailto … Read more
You can use URL encoding to encode the newline as %0A. mailto:[email protected]?subject=test&body=type%20your%0Amessage%20here While the above appears to work in many cases, user olibre points out that the RFC governing the mailto URI scheme specifies that %0D%0A (carriage return + line feed) should be used instead of %0A (line feed). See also: Newline Representations.