{mailto} automates the creation of a mailto:
anchor links and optionally encodes them. Encoding emails makes it more
difficult for web spiders to lift email addresses off of a site.
Technical Note:
Javascript is probably the most thorough form of
encoding, although you can use hex encoding too.
Attribute Name
Type
Required
Default
Description
address
string
Yes
n/a
The e-mail address
text
string
No
n/a
The text to display, default is the e-mail address
encode
string
No
none
How to encode the e-mail. Can be one of none,
hex, javascript
or javascript_charcode.
cc
string
No
n/a
Email addresses to carbon copy, separate entries by a comma.
bcc
string
No
n/a
Email addresses to blind carbon copy,
separate entries by a comma
subject
string
No
n/a
Email subject
newsgroups
string
No
n/a
Newsgroups to post to, separate entries by a comma.
followupto
string
No
n/a
Addresses to follow up to, separate entries by a comma.
extra
string
No
n/a
Any extra information you want passed to the link, such
as style sheet classes
Example 8-23. {mailto} example lines followed by the result