Creating link to an email address

[BAK]

I would like to create a link to my email address within a notebook lesson. When I try, I get the message "use URL, ex: http://address".  Is it only possible to link to a web page? Hmmmm...

Does anyone have a way around this problem?

Thanks!

 

[Lloyd Summers]

Hello there,

 

Give this a try:

 

mailto:[e-mail]

 

Anytime you use a mailto: at the front, programs should treat it like a hyperlink straight to Outlook.  The only problem is that some users do not have Outlook properly configured (etc) which is why its not used all that often on HTML pages.

 

-Lloyd

[BAK]

Yes! This worked for me and opened up an Outlook window. Thank you Lloyd! You're the best :)

[Darren Kuropatwa]

Between angle brackets <> type this:

 

a href="mailto:[e-mail]"

Don't forget the quotation marks "".

Cheers!

[BAK]

Thanks, Darren. I typed this:   <a href="mailto:[e-mail]">   but still got the error message. Did I do something wrong?

[Darren Kuropatwa]

My mistake. Here's the full monty:

 

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Email Becky</a>

 

That will make the text "Email Becky" clickable and launch the users emailer automatically. Mind you, like Lloyd says, many people use web based email nowadays so I often share my email address like this:

 

dkuropatwa {at} gmail {dot} com

 

which helps cut down a bit on spam bots harvesting my email address, although with gmail's spam filter that's not so much of a problem anymore.

[BAK]

Hi Darren,

Boy... do I feel dense.

So, I'm in Notebook, in the create a link box, and copied/pasted just what you showed 

<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Email Becky</a>

and still got an error message - can't find server at www.<a.com.  I guess I can just go with the process that Lloyd suggested...

Thanks for the tip about the spam - I never thought about that before, but you're right!

I appreciate your time! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Darren Kuropatwa]

OK, so I'm the dense one here. I didn't read the part where you clearly wrote "within a notebook lesson." Doh!

 

So, have you tried Lloyd's suggestion? It seems to work when I use the link command in SMART Notebook 10.6 and paste in:

 

mailto:[e-mail]

 

Try that and see if it works.

 

Cheers!

[BAK]

Yeah... I tried it and it works OK. Thanks for all of your time & thoughts! I'll probably need your help at a later time... 

Cheers!