You do not need to enter a url into a browser, url's are not just for browsers. however when you click on it your system should fire up your mailer with the mailto: address in the To field.
The other fields are implemented by some mailers, as Yuri said, but not all and are NOT part of the standars. RFC 1738: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html (I am unsure whether this rfc is current, but there is usually a notation on them if they have been superceded) "3.5. MAILTO The mailto URL scheme is used to designate the Internet mailing address of an individual or service. No additional information other than an Internet mailing address is present or implied. 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]. Within mailto URLs, there are no reserved characters. Note that the percent sign ("%") is commonly used within RFC 822 addresses and must be encoded. Unlike many URLs, the mailto scheme does not represent a data object to be accessed directly; there is no sense in which it designates an object. It has a different use than the message/external-body type in MIME." On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:37:05 +1300 Peter Cornelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick R. said - > >Its not an address Peter, its a url. The standard which prescribes the > mailto: url link has been extended in non standard ways by a number of > people. I believe that the?body= extension is NOT part of the standard, > and therefore may not be interpreted consistently by all mail clients. > > Well, that's a new one on me; having to enter a url in a browser (Netscape) > in order to open an outgoing mail in my mailer (Eudora)! > > Peter.
