automatically popup mailto: link?

[partha]

I want to click a button on a page and have it pop up a new email message.

Right now I just have php redirect the browser to
mailto:[e-mail]

but I also want to display something on the browser "underneath" the new email message that was popped up. As it is right now, redirecting to the mailto: just gives me a blank page in the browser.

so is there some other way to automatically start a new email message, or is there some way I can display something in the browser window?

[bill]

How can you know what e-mail client the user has or how it will display a new message? You can certainly try to use a pop-up, but depending on the users setup you can't guarantee how it will display another application.

[bumpaw]

It sounds like you might need a form in the nature of Contact Us. I just set one up with phorm that's php and customized a template for the auto response and the message that is sent by the form.

[partha]

yeah I would have done a contact form, but since this is for people in a company to send emails to their colleagues quickly, I wanted to have them be able to use their address book in whatever email client they use

[bumpaw]

I guess it would depend on how many colleagues there are. I did one for a hospital and provided a drop down with all the names so that they could pick their target. The email address are hidden in MySQL.