How to send mail with a Subject using a Mailto URL

Question

I need to make a Mailto link to my website which is suppose to contain either the product name or the product page URL in the subject section. How can I do it?
Exp: When you get an email through eBay about a product you are selling or buying, you automatically know what product that email is about by seeing the product name in the subject section.
How can i do this?

Answer 1

This page [Link Dead] outlines the syntax of mailto URIs:

• Address message to multiple recipients

  ,   (comma separating e-mail addresses)
  

• Add entry in the "Subject" field

  subject=Subject Field Text
  

• Add entry in the "Copy To" or "CC" field

  cc=[e-mail]
  

• Add entry in the "Blind Copy To" or "BCC" field

  bcc=[e-mail]
  

• Add entry in the "Body" field

  body=Your message here
  
  Within the body use "%0A" for a new line,
  use "%0A%0A" for a new line preceded by a blank line (paragraph),
  

What you are looking for is:

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]?subject=This Is My Product">

Note, it's probably a good idea to URL encode the spaces with either a + or a %20:

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]?subject=This+Is+My+Product">

Answer 2

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]?subject=hello world">Email Me!</a>

Internet Archive:

• Set up an HTML mailto form without a back-end script
• HTML Mailto Attribute and Tips
• HTML Mailto Tips and Tricks
• Mailto Syntax

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Answer 3

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]?subject=YourSubjectHere">Try This</a>

If you want something more advanced, you're going to have to code it from scratch (or use someone else's script). Try looking into PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, etc.

Answer 4

I've run into problems with this before when I didn't url encode the value, so I would suggest (using lc's example):

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]?subject=This+Is+My+Product">

or

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]?subject=This%20Is%20My%20Product">