'The "MailTo" ...setting a proper name on the Recipient
How do I set a proper name for the recipient when in HTML I want to use the "mailto" tag.
Something like:
mailto:"John Wayne([email protected])?subject..
How do I achieve that ??
Solution 1:[1]
The original standard for mailto: links, RFC 1738, says this:
A mailto URL takes the form:
mailto:<rfc822-addr-spec>where
<rfc822-addr-spec>is (the encoding of an)addr-spec, as specified in RFC 822 [6].
Under that definition, addr-spec is of the form "local-part@domain", so no proper name could be included.
But the mailto: section of RFC 1738 was first superseded by RFC 2368, which allows (among other things, including predefined subject lines) for an RFC 822 mailbox specification—which includes a proper name.
[2016-05-31] As David Balažic points out in a comment, RFC 2368 is in turn obsoleted by RFC 6068. From Section 9, “Main Changes from RFC 2368”:
The main changes from RFC 2368 are as follows:
An RFC 5322 <addr-spec> is of the same "local-part@domain" form as mentioned above, so once again, no name can officially be included.
In actual use, mailto:Fred Foo<[email protected]> still seems to work, but it’s not officially supported; you may also have to encode the space, i.e., mailto:Fred%20Foo<[email protected]>, and/or put the name in quotes, i.e., mailto:"Fred Foo"<[email protected]>.
Solution 2:[2]
Try this: mailto:%22John%20Wayne%22%[email protected]%3e?subject..
Wrap the name in %22 and the email has %3c before it and %3e after it and %20 for spaces
That will output: "John Wayne"<[email protected]>
Full list of URL Encoding here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
Solution 3:[3]
Solution 4:[4]
As mentioned in other answers, RFC 2368 allows the full mailbox syntax, which can be in name-addr (display-name plus angle-addr) form (RFC 5322). Unfortunately, it was obsoleted by RFC 6068, which only allows addr-spec form. However, both specifications allow omitting the URI authority (where the to-address usually goes) and specifying full header fields (including To:) as query parameters. Therefore, mailto:?to=John%20Wayne%20%[email protected]%3e is valid.
Solution 5:[5]
<a href="mailto:lala lala2([email protected])?subject=MailTo Comments&[email protected]&[email protected]">ddddd</a>
Remember to use only one ? (question mark), when providing multiple entries beyond e-mail address
Solution 6:[6]
This all depends on what mail client you use. I've tried that long before at Outlook express and it's ok. But after many years, I use Dream Mail and it will only bring in the mail address part while leave out the name part.
Solution 7:[7]
Encode the uri and assign it to mailto.
Also your email and display name need to be formed as either John Wayne <[email protected]> or [email protected] (John Wayne).
Make sure you did encodeURI for these. Else it wont work properly in different mailclients.
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| Solution 1 | Jonathan Hartley |
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| Solution 3 | SF Developer |
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| Solution 6 | Scott Chu |
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