mailto: - BCC?

[gavin]

I know that I can put an email link on a web page using the "mailto:"
command and I know that I can send the email to a second email address by
separating the addresses with a semi-colon. But my question is can I put
automatically have an email sent to a second email address as a BCC?


Best wishes,



Gavin

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

I know that I can put an email link on a web page using the "mailto:"
command and I know that I can send the email to a second email address by
separating the addresses with a semi-colon. But my question is can I put
automatically have an email sent to a second email address as a BCC?

All you can set reliably is the recipient. Anything else is an mal-
formed URL. Do it with a server-side script.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I know that I can put an email link on a web page using the "mailto:"
command and I know that I can send the email to a second email address by
separating the addresses with a semi-colon. But my question is can I put
automatically have an email sent to a second email address as a BCC?

http://php.net/mail

 

[gavin]

Server side script??? Yikes, that sounds a bit scary for a newbie like me.
I'll get me coat.......





Gavin

 

[William Tasso]

Server side script??? Yikes, that sounds a bit scary for a newbie
like me. I'll get me coat.......

Relax, ask your host. They should have an example you can plagiarise.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

Server side script??? Yikes, that sounds a bit scary for a newbie like me.
I'll get me coat.......

<top-posting action="fixed" />

You're probably wrong:
http://php.resourceindex.com/

 

[Mark Parnell]

All you can set reliably is the recipient.

Depends on your definition of reliably. Mailto: won't ever work for
anyone without a mail client.

 

[Daniel R. Tobias]

I know that I can put an email link on a web page using the "mailto:"
command and I know that I can send the email to a second email address by
separating the addresses with a semi-colon. But my question is can I put
automatically have an email sent to a second email address as a BCC?

The standards for the "mailto:" URI are specified in RFC 2368:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt

One thing noted there is that multiple addresses must be separated by
commas, not semicolons as you incorrectly stated.

A method is provided there to include other parameters, including "bcc",
if you so wish. However, as others have noted, despite this being
permitted in the standard, it's not necessarily fully supported in all
combinations of browsers and e-mail programs; anything beyond a single
address in a mailto link, with no parameters, is taking a risk of having
it fail altogether.

 

[gavin]

The standards for the "mailto:" URI are specified in RFC 2368:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt

One thing noted there is that multiple addresses must be separated by
commas, not semicolons as you incorrectly stated.

That's strange - I have used semi colons and it seems to work.

A method is provided there to include other parameters, including "bcc",
if you so wish. However, as others have noted, despite this being
permitted in the standard, it's not necessarily fully supported in all
combinations of browsers and e-mail programs; anything beyond a single
address in a mailto link, with no parameters, is taking a risk of having
it fail altogether.

Thanks for that. As it seems to be a bit hit and miss I think I am best
leaving it alone.




Gavin

 

[Daniel R. Tobias]

That's strange - I have used semi colons and it seems to work.

"Seems to work" in your particular combination of browser and mail
program is a very different matter from being standards-compliant and
functional in a broad range of browsers and mail programs. (For
instance, in Mozilla, commas work correctly but semicolons cause a bogus
address to be used.)

 

[davethomas]

Mailto: BCC is possible

You can specify bcc in mailto. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt Posted above shows how