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{mailto}

{mailto} automates the creation of a mailto: anchor links and optionally encodes them. Encoding emails makes it more difficult for web spiders to lift email addresses off of a site.

Technical Note: Javascript is probably the most thorough form of encoding, although you can use hex encoding too.

Attribute Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
address	string	Yes	n/a	The e-mail address
text	string	No	n/a	The text to display, default is the e-mail address
encode	string	No	none	How to encode the e-mail. Can be one of `none`, `hex`, `javascript` or `javascript_charcode`.
cc	string	No	n/a	Email addresses to carbon copy, separate entries by a comma.
bcc	string	No	n/a	Email addresses to blind carbon copy, separate entries by a comma
subject	string	No	n/a	Email subject
newsgroups	string	No	n/a	Newsgroups to post to, separate entries by a comma.
followupto	string	No	n/a	Addresses to follow up to, separate entries by a comma.
extra	string	No	n/a	Any extra information you want passed to the link, such as style sheet classes

Example 8-23. {mailto} example lines followed by the result

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

{mailto address="[email protected]" text="send me some mail"}
<a href="mailto:[email protected]" >send me some mail</a>

{mailto address="[email protected]" encode="javascript"}
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
   eval(unescape('%64%6f% ... snipped ...%61%3e%27%29%3b'))
</script>

{mailto address="[email protected]" encode="hex"}
<a href="mailto:%6d%65.. snipped..3%6f%6d">&#x6d;&..snipped...#x6f;&#x6d;</a>

{mailto address="[email protected]" subject="Hello to you!"}
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Hello%20to%20you%21" >[email protected]</a>

{mailto address="[email protected]" cc="[email protected],[email protected]"}
<a href="mailto:[email protected][email protected]%[email protected]" >[email protected]</a>

{mailto address="[email protected]" extra='class="email"'}
<a href="mailto:[email protected]" class="email">[email protected]</a>

{mailto address="[email protected]" encode="javascript_charcode"}
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    <!--
    {document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,97, ... snipped ....60,47,97,62))}
    //-->
</script>

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