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<code class="varname">{mailto}</code> automates the creation of a <code class="literal">mailto:</code>
anchor links and optionally encodes them. Encoding emails makes it more
difficult for web spiders to lift email addresses off of a site.
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Javascript is probably the most thorough form of
encoding, although you can use hex encoding too.
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<td align="center">address</td>
<td align="center">string</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>n/a</em></span></td>
<td>The e-mail address</td>
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<td align="center">text</td>
<td align="center">string</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>n/a</em></span></td>
<td>The text to display, default is the e-mail address</td>
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<td align="center">encode</td>
<td align="center">string</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>none</em></span></td>
<td>How to encode the e-mail. Can be one of <code class="literal">none</code>,
<code class="literal">hex</code>, <code class="literal">javascript</code>
or <code class="literal">javascript_charcode</code>.</td>
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<td align="center">cc</td>
<td align="center">string</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>n/a</em></span></td>
<td>Email addresses to carbon copy, separate entries by a comma.
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<td align="center">bcc</td>
<td align="center">string</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>n/a</em></span></td>
<td>Email addresses to blind carbon copy,
separate entries by a comma</td>
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<td align="center">subject</td>
<td align="center">string</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>n/a</em></span></td>
<td>Email subject</td>
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<td align="center">newsgroups</td>
<td align="center">string</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>n/a</em></span></td>
<td>Newsgroups to post to, separate entries by a comma.</td>
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<td align="center">followupto</td>
<td align="center">string</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>n/a</em></span></td>
<td>Addresses to follow up to, separate entries by a comma.</td>
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<td align="center">No</td>
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<td>Any extra information you want passed to the link, such
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<a name="id3075887"></a><p class="title"><b>Example 8.23. {mailto} example lines followed by the result</b></p>
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{mailto address="me@example.com"}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com" >me@example.com</a>
{mailto address="me@example.com" text="send me some mail"}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com" >send me some mail</a>
{mailto address="me@example.com" encode="javascript"}
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
eval(unescape('%64%6f% ... snipped ...%61%3e%27%29%3b'))
</script>
{mailto address="me@example.com" encode="hex"}
<a href="mailto:%6d%65.. snipped..3%6f%6d">&#x6d;&..snipped...#x6f;&#x6d;</a>
{mailto address="me@example.com" subject="Hello to you!"}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com?subject=Hello%20to%20you%21" >me@example.com</a>
{mailto address="me@example.com" cc="you@example.com,they@example.com"}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com?cc=you@example.com%2Cthey@example.com" >me@example.com</a>
{mailto address="me@example.com" extra='class="email"'}
<a href="mailto:me@example.com" class="email">me@example.com</a>
{mailto address="me@example.com" 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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See also
<a class="link" href="language.modifier.escape.html" title="escape"><code class="varname">escape</code></a>,
<a class="link" href="language.function.textformat.html" title="{textformat}"><code class="varname">{textformat}</code></a>
and
<a class="link" href="tips.obfuscating.email.html" title="Obfuscating E-mail Addresses">obfuscating email addresses</a>.
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