Q557 Is it possible to send an email from a link with text in the body of the email?

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Q557 Is it possible to send an email from a link with text in the body of the email?

I received the following from Dick Goran:

The following will work in both Netscape Navigator & Internet Explorer except for a length limitation in Internet Explorer that I have not found any way around. The example, as shown below, exceeds that byte limitation by one. remove one byte anywhere in the content, and it will work in Internet Explorer.

<a href="mailto:webmaster@cfsrexx.com
?cc=dgoran01@cfsrexx.com
&subject=1234567890
&body=
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5
....+....6....+....7....+....8....+....9....+...10%0D%0A
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5
....+....6....+....7....+....8....+....9....+...10%0D%0A
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5
....+....6....+....7....*....%0D%0A">
E-mail this report to Webmaster@cfsrexx.com</a>

It doesn't work on Netscape Navigator 2 and Netscape Navigator 3, it probably doesn't work on Internet Explorer 3, but it does on Netscape Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 4.

Michael Kim writes:

I think the mailto length limitation has more to do with Outlook 97 than Internet Explorer 5.0. I have a similar application with long &body text and this application works fine with Outlook Express but not with Outlook 97. Outlook 97 appears to limit string size to 256 characters. I suspect this is related to the VB driver that comes with Outlook 97...VB string is limited to 256 characters. Outlook Express appears to have no problem with long strings.

Feedback on 'Q557 Is it possible to send an email from a link with text in the body of the email?'

• 09:39:04 10/06/00 michael kim
• 23:29:31 5/17/00 darshan