Send Email via Outlook 2007 with "send to field" blank.

[jlig]

I have a simple question:

- How do I get the user's Outlook 2007 "New Email Message" box to open up when the user clicks on a button called "Send Email"?

- Outlook is the default Email client on each user

- I need the Outlook box to open, with the following values prefilled:

To: blank (so the user can type in an address)

From: info@email.com

Subject: blah, blah, blah

Body: Hello, etc...

The part I'm having trouble with is getting the Send To field to be blank or unfilled?

[Leonard_B]

Hey There,

Try this out:

<a href="mailto:? --- followed by additional desired code</a>

Basically leaving after mailto:blank, should do the trick on the to field.

Leonard B

[jlig]

Leonard, Thanks for the quick post..

Along with your tip, I ended up doing the following, which worked perfectly:

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<cfset to_email="">

<cfset subject_text="Here is the Link to the Form..">

<cfset body_text="Welcome to the Step by Step Procedure!%0A">

<cfoutput><a href = "mailto:#to_email#?subject=#subject_text#&body=#body_text#">Click to Send Email Link to Customer</a></cfoutput>

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Note: I used the %0A at the end of my Body text to help with formatting.

One other question: How do I make this code above run directly from my SPRY menu?

- Currently I have to open another form and then click on hyperlink text on the form

- I would rather bypass the new form page altogether, and just call the code from my SPRY menu?

- Here is the code behind my SPRY Drop-Down menu item:

<li><a href="form_emailLink.cfm" target="_blank">Send Form Link</a></li>

[Leonard_B]

Hey There,

If I understand what it is you want to do, try this:

In the href component of your spry menu, just copy and paste the

href of your link into the href of your spry menu component and

remove the _blank.

ie: mailto:#to_email#?subject=#subject_text#&body=#body_text#

Then when the menu item is clicked on, it will open up outlook with info

inserted as desired.

Leonard B