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I'd like to open an email automatically with To & subject, when the html page loads. I need to use only mailto functionality. Can someone help me how to do this?

Niet the Dark Absol
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  • Additionally you may find this question useful: [how-to-avoid-the-mailto-annoyance](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891131/how-to-avoid-the-mailto-annoyance) – Arsen7 Apr 27 '12 at 07:20

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Redirect the user to a mailto link. This can be done with basic JavaScript:

location.href = "mailto:you@example.com?subject=Test+Message";

Just take into consideration the fact that:

  1. A lot of people use online email these days (GMail, hotmail, etc) - not me personally, but... other people.
  2. If the user has a desktop email program, you'll be forcing an unexpected window open on them.
  3. It's even worse if the user has a desktop email program, but has never set it up - as would be the case of most of the people in point 1. The window would open and then the whole "email setup" process would start.

Just be careful.

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try something like this

      <html>
       <head>

       <script type="text/javascript">
        function mymessage()
        {
         location.href = "mailto:you@example.com?subject=Hello";

         }
        </script>
    </head>

    <body onload="mymessage()">
    </body>

     </html>
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  • Yesterday it was working fine. Today i am getting an error in IE 9 with a pop-up saying " Another version of outlook is currently running. close it and try again". Working good in firefox And IE 8. – Sathish Apr 27 '12 at 07:43
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    close all program and then execute – srini Apr 27 '12 at 10:13
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    srini's example also works perfectly with PHP (and MySQL) code if you put the PHP code before the for example: location.href="mailto:?subject= Receipt&body="; – KarlosFontana Apr 18 '14 at 18:18