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Link with mailto when the user doesn't have an email handler?

So,

Imagine that I have this link:

<a href="mailto:test@myemail.com">Test</a>

How do you deal with people that visit your site and don't have any email handler? What are the possible solutions? Like showing the email, for example? Any other solutions?

Thanks

Solution

  • EDIT: This solution requires you putting the email in between the anchor links. Why would you not?

    I would not worry about it. Most browsers (all modern ones) would allow a user to right click and copy the email to their clipboard in the worst case. Its not such a mission critical feature that I would worry about it. If they do click it, I believe the browser will ask the user what mail client they would like to associatemailto links to.

    The only other choice would to allow them to fill out a form that your mail server will generate into an email and then send to the appropriate recipients.