url: mailto
4.4 mailto
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A ‘mailto’ URL specifies an email message to be sent to a given email
address. For example, ‘mailto:foo@bar.com’ specifies sending a message
to ‘foo@bar.com’. The “retrieval method” for such URLs is to open a
mail composition buffer in which the appropriate content (e.g., the
recipient address) has been filled in.
As defined in RFC 6068, a ‘mailto’ URL can have the form
‘mailto:MAILBOX[?HEADER=CONTENTS[&HEADER=CONTENTS]]’
where an arbitrary number of HEADERs can be added. If the HEADER is
‘body’, then CONTENTS is put in the message body; otherwise, a HEADER
header field is created with CONTENTS as its contents. Note that the
‘url’ library does not perform any checking of HEADER or CONTENTS, so
you should check them before sending the message.
-- User Option: url-mail-command
The value of this variable is the function called whenever url
needs to send mail. This should normally be left its default,
which is the standard mail-composition command ‘compose-mail’.
(emacs)Sending Mail.
If the document containing the ‘mailto’ URL itself possessed a known
URL, Emacs automatically inserts an ‘X-Url-From’ header field into the
mail buffer, specifying that URL.
Info Catalog
url: info
url: Supported URL Types
url: news/nntp/snews