Mailto and using body of new mail message

not usre if you can speciy a new line..try looking here:
http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/husted_mailto/mailto.html

I thought you would be able to use '\n' to insert a line break but that doesnt work.

The answer is given on the page Arielladog posted. You have to encode your string first. Line breaks become '%0A'

[This message has been edited by Lloyd Hassell (edited 12 May 2000).]

how come this won't work...I M using it as my 404 page. TYpe in a bad name for a page that doesn't exist, and you should be taken there, but try clicking on the email the webmaster link, how come it won't work?
www.scahperd.org/aslkjfdasdlkj.html

arielladog -- it works in Netscape?!

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hmmm, it didn't work with the line breaks in IE and Outlook Express

Hi,

As far as I know, IE & Outlook do not accept the "body/content" parameter to begin with. At least, I've never managed to get them to work.

Vinny

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In IE and Outlook Express, I got the body to work, but just not the line breaks.

arielladog

you can not pass anything with a "?" in it to the body in outlook. Take out any of your question marks and try it again. Outlook freaks out and stops processing anything sent to the body when a question mark is read.

This is REALLY annoying when I was trying to pass links with variabls into emails. i.e.:

The page you requested is: www.blah.com?blah=blah.

Now way around it that I know off.

I don't know about outlook,b ut I would assume it is the same as outlook express. Go here:
http://www.scahperd.org/aslkjfdasdlkj.html click on the email the webmaster, and a body comes up, but, the body comes up with out the line breaks

hehe well, I only have outlook, so I am probably not even looking at the same thing as you. When I click it, it comes up with this in the message only:

What is the address of the page that you were trying to reach, but couldn't

See it stops processing at the first "?" defined within the body. So you are seeing the whole message but without breaks?

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=Page was not there&Body=What is the address of the page that you were trying to reach, but couldn't?%0A%0A%0AIf you clicked on a link from another page to get the the page that wasn't there, what was the name of the page and what link did you click on?%0A%0A%0A">email the webmaster</a>

It didnt work for me and I use Hotmail. You have used "Subject" with a capital "S" and the same goes for "Body". Maybe try all lowercase words. This feature is probably only supported by a few email programs.