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                <p>This is probably a silly question and I think I know the answer, but this list has proven me wrong before.<br /><br />Is there any way to use a "mailto:" link (most likely by building the body content as a Javascript variable) to produce formatted text in the body? It's okay if this is an IE-only solution; it's for a MS-based intranet site with Outlook on all machines.<br /><br />I've tried using the following:<br /><br />var sBody = "Here is some <b>sample</b> text.\n\nWhat do you think?";<br />window.location.href = <a href="mailto:peter@brunone.com?subject=testmail&body=">mailto:peter@brunone.com?subject=testmail&body=</a>" + unescape(sBody);<br /><br />but even when I use unescape, the bold tags show up as bold tags (&lt;b&gt; in View Source). Is there any hope for me, perhaps through custom-script some Outlook object?<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Peter</p>