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I am generating an asp page with information on our organizations annual
calendar. One of the items presented is the contacts email address. It does
appear as a hyperlink but when you click on it, it generates an error page
that says "This Action is not allowed"

How do I get it to generate the Mailto: link and open email editor. I am
using FrontPage2003 to do all this

Any ideas?

thanks

Paul

"Paul Proefrock" <> wrote in message
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> I am generating an asp page with information on our organizations annual
> calendar. One of the items presented is the contacts email address. It
does
> appear as a hyperlink but when you click on it, it generates an error page
> that says "This Action is not allowed"
>
> How do I get it to generate the Mailto: link and open email editor. I am
> using FrontPage2003 to do all this
>
> Any ideas?

The HTML for an anchor with a mailto URL is:

<a href="private.php?do=newpm&u=">Email Nobody</a>

It is interpreted entirely at the client. The client settings may be such
that the action is prohibited but it is unlikely in most situations. I
suspect you have a simple HTML syntax error somewhere on your page. You can
use the HTML Validator utility at W3.org to track down invalid code:

HTML Validator at W3.org:
http://validator.w3.org/


See also:

Reference from W3.org:

Section 12.2 - Anchors
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html

Reference on URLs from IETF.org:

RFC 1808
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1808.txt

http://www.powerasp.com/content/new/...hyperlinks.asp


"Paul Proefrock" <> wrote in message
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>I am generating an asp page with information on our organizations annual
>calendar. One of the items presented is the contacts email address. It does
>appear as a hyperlink but when you click on it, it generates an error page
>that says "This Action is not allowed"
>
> How do I get it to generate the Mailto: link and open email editor. I am
> using FrontPage2003 to do all this
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
>
> Paul
>