asp.net formatting an email

Question

I am working on an application that involves the user clicking on a hyperlink to popup an outlook email template. I have the SendTo values, and the subject values. How do I enter text into the body of the email?

Answer 1

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<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=x&body=y">...</a>

Answer 2

In the hyperlink you can add the ?body= variable after the email address. Formatting the body will be a challenge because for symbols like spaces you have to use hex codes (space = %20, newline = %0D). I don't know what your design criteria are, but most of the time I prefer to create a form with the desired input fields and let .NET handle the sending of the e-mail message on the submit.