[thelist] mailto: long body text

Tyme nopun at bellsouth.net
Tue Aug 14 10:46:13 CDT 2001


Have a long letter (see http://www.oceanforestlakes.com/vpc.asp "Sample
Letter") that I want to insert as a mailto: body value.  Cannot seem to get
it to work.  [In IE5.01, I'm getting an error 'default mail client not
properly configured'.  Not so, as it works with a smaller block of text.]

I've tried encoding it (Server.HTMLEncode; Server.URLEncode; manually
encoding it -- spaces et al.);

Tried breaking it up into smaller variables and the stringing those
variables;

Running it all together as one string (for testing);

Etc.!

The problem seems to be the size, as it does work with only 1 paragraph.
However, I did a search for "mailto:" and could not find any information on
maximum length.

Anyone got any ideas here?  I might have better luck with ASPMail or such,
but actually prefer to use the mailto: in this case.

Thanks.

Tyme







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