How do I make a forward e-mail link?

问题:

So I want to make a HTML news letter to be sent out. I want to make a "Forward to Friend" button, but how would I link that?

回答1:

The short answer is that you can't. Email clients don't provide a way for emails to trigger their Forward functionality.

The closest you could come would be to provide a link to a form which asks people to give you email addresses belonging to third parties to which you could then send email. (If I was that third party, the email would be dropped directly in my spam bin, possibly after filling out the annoying form for reporting spammers that is available from the OIC)

The good news is that email clients have Forward functionality built in, so you don't need to reinvent the wheel.

回答2:

The little trick I use is to leave the "mailto" part blank, and then in the the "body" section put in a link that points to an online archive of the html email I just sent them.

Like this: mailto:?Subject=Subject%20From%20My%20Original%20Email&body=Link%20To%20Online%20Archive%20of%20Original%20Email:%20http://www.bing.com/

In outlook, link is automatically turned into a hyperlink AND their cursor defaults to the "To" field because it's the only thing left blank.

I did this as a quick work around until we code a landing page for them to fill out a form and enter their friends email address, etc. This way if anyone comes across a link to our archived email on our SITE, they'll have the handy link in it to auto-open their email for them and start a message to their friend(s).

回答3:

I'd try to go with the server side script route.

With PHP, use the mail function and retrieve the TO:$person from a post variable that is sent.

You could link it like:

Click <a href="http://bmtk.net/forward.php?**uniqueid**">here</a> to forward this email to a friend!

回答4:

GraphicMail do it by adding a link into the footer of the email that takes you to a 'Forward to' webpage (http://www.graphicmail.com/site/forward_to_friend.aspx?SiteID=xxx&SID=x&Section=xxx&FromEmail=[e-mail]&token=&EmailID=X) that allows you to forward the mail assuming that all the newsletters you send out have a unique ID.