It's a fairly common complaint. If you encode an href link to mailto:[email protected] it'll ask your OS to use whatever is the default email program to send an email to that address.
If your primary email address is accessed only by webmail, then you don't have a default email program, only a web browser that you happen to use to check your email. You could code an HTML form with the php mail() command, there are some good examples on the web which validate email addresses and prevent injection attacks. It all depends if .mac hosting supports php. You'd always be better off with a dedicated hosting company, they'll give you many more options than .mac hosting for configuring the less basic sites. Regards Sam -- MacAmbulance Sam Mullen 07747778022 [email protected] On 12 Mar 2011, at 23:50, "B. Dover" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello again all > > As i got this working i thought i send in my other question in as i have > been puzzled for a while about this tbh > > As mentioned i started testing and using iWeb to make simple web sites, > especially there in this app it has got a very handy and simply option to > 'drop in' an 'email me' button graphic which acts as an email link to the > email address filled out in the 'site name' page/section, although this can > be changed for email links individually with each use of this button by going > to the link section in the inspector pallet and so on. > > The problem is not iWeb's i think, altho previous web sites made or > attempts!! where using the standard html , email:link to=address, in the > finished site it always worked pretty well and one can go java script re > encode the email address so the nasty search engine and spam bots can sniff > out email addresses out of websites, and even adding > ?subject=subject_off_email and so on always worked fine when i clicked on > them myself and i think luckily enough friends who i made the site for to > even a company ones had also just like me their stand alone email programs > like Mac 'email' app and on a friends p.c. eudora and others acted as email > programs where the link pointed to? and prepared the email via the link as a > build in pop up thing or action. > > On;y after all these years i just made a quick and simple email link in an > iWeb site and asked yet again a friend to have a look on windows vista 7 > using different browsers and he only complained in the style of 'something' > is trying to pop up when i click the email links!!!? > > After looking at it and checking what i know in general and the little about > pc's especially it seems he has not got a standalone email program and only > 'webmail' !! > > so these email links obviously don't open your webmail page i take it? and > only way to make it work for these people with this set up only using webmail > is to put the address in plain text like [email protected] so it can be copy and > pasted from there in their web mail program or page i should say? Or like i > have been pointed out one can use a 'from page' via a cgi bin who deals with > sending the email to the specified address? i have done this ones for a form > but remember it took me a week to set up correctly and it is not for example > something one gets offered with a mac.com subscription via their servers > either? > > What am i ment to do to make email graphics/links work for all these with web > mail only and why has no body ever complained about this not working before > is even stranger to me! > > I hope you understand what i mean and what do you people with web mail > service only do to email from a website because me using macs email me > graphic would not even allowed you to copy and paste the underlying address!! > > A very strange thing now to me and any help much appreciated! > > Cheers > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
