How to Create a MailTo Link
This article shows how to add a MailTo Link to your email, which will automatically launch a new email including the subject line and body text when clicked.
Please Note: Mailto links are not trackable in your campaign results.
- Highlight the link text
- Click on Hyperlink Manager (NOT the tracked links button on the right-hand side of the editor)
- Select the Email Tab
- Type in the email address
- Type in the subject line
- Click OK
- Highlight the selected text
- Click insert web link
- Remove the http:// and replace it with mailto: followed by the email address (e.g. mailto:support@communigator.co.uk)
- You can add an alias to appear in the URL. Just bear in mind that the alias appears under campaign results.
- Select 'Insert'.
- Add ?subject= followed by the subject line (e.g. mailto:support@communigator.co.uk?subject=CommuniGatorMailToLink).
- As you can see when sending a test this populates the subject line.
The mail to body text is added after the subject line of the same link as shown in the screen shot above.
After the subject line type "&body=" then your message.
You are able to include spaces within the body text by adding %20 between each word. This results in the mail shown below.
Please Note: If you do not use a mailto link but leave the email address in the field, it will display blue in the sent email and reads as a link.