lotus notes - mailto link issue

Question

I am trying to get a mailto link working, but I'm having issues with lotus notes.

My link: <a href="mailto:?subject=mySubject&body=myBody">Link</a>

What happens is that the following appears in the subject of the email: mySubject&body=myBody

It doesn't seem to recognize the &body=

Any ideas?

Thanks, Chris

Can this help you? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12777334/mailto-lotus-notes-issue-with-mail-toaddress — Per Henrik Lausten, Feb 08 '13 at 18:21
Yes, apparently lotus notes uses ? as a delimeter ... and doesn't recognize &. ... THANKS!!! — Chris Allinson, Feb 08 '13 at 19:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '13 at 16:08

I have universally solved the issue.

The actual reason things were getting messed up is that in the body of my email I had a link. It contained a query string (for example: http://www.aaa.com/index.php?date=xxx&value=yyy)

This & in the link caused the issue!!! It seems that lotus notes explodes/splits the mailto string differently than outlook, and this extra ampersand was not understood.

The solution was to encode the query string so there were no &'s appearing in the body!!!

e.g. <a href="mailto:?subject=mySubject&body=myBody%0A%0Ahttp://www.aaa.com/index.php?SxgftrTr65bfi">Link</a>

This works in both lotus and outlook!

NOTE: SxgftrTr65bfi would be decoded on the server side!

-Chris

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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Use ? instead of & to mark the start of parameters for the mailto link.

See this duplicate question: mailto lotus notes issue with mail toaddress

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Feb 09 '13 at 05:42

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This solution very specific to lotus notes and does work! But, I have solved the issue universally ... [see my answer below]. – Chris Allinson Feb 13 '13 at 16:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 08 '13 at 18:40

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If you have an older version, you may be hitting a bug:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21087914

answered Feb 08 '13 at 18:40

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 01 '14 at 17:45

I ran into a similar problem, where Lotus notes did not like either question marks (?) or ampersands (&) in the body of an email. Rather than using server-side processing, you can simply replace all question marks in and ampersands with their hex code equivalent.

Use %3F for question marks, and %26 for ampersands, and you should be good to go.

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