Philip TAYLOR wrote:
Robert Kaiser wrote:
I was talking about those without a mailto: there. For mailto: it
doesn't send at all but just open an email window, and that
determines how it is sent in the end - usually ends up with SMTP
or IMAP, whatever the respective email client and account has set.
OK, my point is that I was seeking to clarify Dustbin's original
thinking, in which he writes :
E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it
HTTP; is it FTP; is it...?
Now my thinking is that his analysis is wrong, and a mailto: link
will almost certainly lead to an SMTP exchange, and almost certainly
never lead to one involving HTTP or FTP. Would you agree ? (I think
that IMAP is a red-herring, in that IMAP is basically a protocol for
accessing existing messages from a server rather than for creating
new messages).
I agree with you, Philip. Clicking on a mailto link invokes a local
email client only, and cannot to my knowledge start up any type of
webmail interface. Hence, the clicker will use SMTP to send whatever
email message he creates, and therefore no HTTP(S). Certainly not FTP.
IMAP and POP are used for receiving email, not sending it from your
local computer.
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-bts
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