How to fire mailto urls from action method

Question

I am a beginner in MVC. I want to develop an action method in MVC which fires Mailto:?body=body goes here.&subject=test subject and so the default mail client will automatically populate the email for the user. Right now I have List<String> which contain mailto: urls.

Please, if you have any experience or demo code it will be helpful to me. Thanks in advance.

What does action method mean? Is this in a particular framework or just raw JavaScript? — Chris Calo, Jul 04 '13 at 02:34
ASP.NET MVC applications is organized around controllers and action methods. The controller defines action methods. Controllers can include as many action methods as needed. Action methods typically have a one-to-one mapping with user interactions. Examples of user interactions include entering a URL into the browser, clicking a link, and submitting a form. Each of these user interactions causes a request to be sent to the server. In each case, the URL of the request includes information that the MVC framework uses to invoke an action method. — Suraj, Jul 04 '13 at 08:36
Consider adding the asp.net tag and/or mentioning this in your question. — Chris Calo, Jul 04 '13 at 11:45

Bastien D · Answer 1 · 2013-07-03T11:03:57.527

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try this :

window.location.href = "mailto:address@dmail.com";

with body

window.location.href = "mailto:address@dmail.com?body=yourBody";

Event with jquery

$('button').on('click', function(){
    window.location.href = "mailto:address@dmail.com?body=yourBody";
});

edited Jul 03 '13 at 11:03

answered Jul 03 '13 at 10:40

Bastien D

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Thank you Bastien for your reply. I know this stuff. I want this is from action method. In my scenario I am processing some logic over server and genrate ``mailto:..`` links and these links i need to fire from action method itself. @Bastien D – Suraj Jul 03 '13 at 10:49
But how to call this from action method ``window.location.href = "mailto:address@dmail.com";`` ??? and mail list is multiple – Suraj Jul 03 '13 at 11:01
if i want a whole div content instead of specific string then how can i do that? – Tombeau Jul 09 '13 at 10:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '13 at 09:28

My ActionMethod

[HttpPost]
public JsonResult emailTemplate()
{
    List<String> str = new List<String>();
    str.Add("Mailto:?body=Hello1&subject=test subject1");
    str.Add("Mailto:?body=Hello2&subject=test subject2");
    return Json(str);
}

JavaScript Function in view

function SendMailClicked() {

        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "/Home/emailTemplate",
            //data: "{'ReviewComponentIds':'1,2,3'}",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            dataType: "json",
            success: function (response) {
                jQuery.each(response, function () {

                    window.location.href = this + '\n';
                });
            },
            failure: function (errMsg) {
                alert('failure');
            }
        });

    }

How to fire mailto urls from action method

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