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- Is mailto still used?
- Why should you avoid mailto links on webpages?
- Why do some email addresses start with mailto?
- Are mailto links good?
Is mailto still used?
they're used everywhere—so people may be expecting the behaviour they're used to. on mobile devices, users pretty much have to set up a default email address, so clicking this link does exactly what most mobile users intend: it opens up their compose dialog.
Why should you avoid mailto links on webpages?
Whether you display your email address on your site, or you put the email address in a mailto link – or both – making it visible is a bad idea. You're probably going to receive spam anyway, but you stand to receive a lot more spam if your email address can be picked up by bots that search the web for email addresses.
Why do some email addresses start with mailto?
mailto is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for email addresses. It is used to produce hyperlinks on websites that allow users to send an email to a specific address directly from an HTML document, without having to copy it and entering it into an email client.
Are mailto links good?
As long as you know that your receiver has a reliable mail client and you aren't worried about things like click-through metrics or tracking, mailto can be a preferred option. In some ways, mailto links are considered old-school.
