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Is there some kind of limit of how big the body can be when sending a form with action="mailto:"?

Is there some kind of limit of how big the body can be, when sending a form with action="mailto:"? Unable to send body greater than a specific length, in my case 2107 character.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • In practical terms, no length at all. Using mailto: actions requires particular combinations of email clients and web browsers that don't have enough market saturation to make it feasible to use mailto: URIs with forms on the WWW.

    Use a server side program (e.g. written in Perl/PSGI or PHP/mod_php) instead.

    See also: The Mythical Mailto: