Comments on: Sending Email from Flash (mailto:)

by: Domenic

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:43:00 +0000

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by: Forrest

Fri, 01 May 2009 23:07:03 +0000

Hey David. Great tutorial thanks.
I have a question regarding how to incorporate a URL click through into the &body of the message, so that the message contains a clickable URL for the receiver of the email to go to a certain website.

Also, I have been unable to create a line break in the &body. I have tried newline, , .

great job

Forrest

by: greg

Fri, 01 May 2009 23:00:42 +0000

Very helpful stuff, David.

by: Derek

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:58:25 +0000

Hi,

When I use the mailto command in Firefox, it works just fine, but when I use Explorer, it opens the e-mail form properly, but also brings up an extra Explorer window, with the mailto command in it’s address bar, that says:
Navigation to the webpage was canceled

What you can try:
Retype the address.

So people can still send me an e-mail, they just get this extra page opening up with an error. It looks unprofessional. Any idea why this is happening?

by: EDK

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:51:38 +0000

Hi I am working with flash 9 and actionscript 3.0
I am trying to find a way to have email sent from my flash site to myself. Has nything been done about this or am I simply confused ….possible the later

thanks

EDK

by: David Stiller

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:34:16 +0000

Cedric,

Alas, the short answer is no.

What you’re calling a function (mailto) is actually a protocol, like the http protocol used in browsers. The explicit mention of a given protocol tells the operating system how to interpret the data that go with it — in this case, an email address and possibly additional email-related information. Flash Player simply isn’t an email client, which is why it relies on the default email client (e.g. Outlook Express) installed on the user’s machine.

The mailto protocol in Flash works very much like the same protocol used in HTML documents. If you add an tag for the same email address in an HTML page, does the hyperlink open your email client?

by: Cedric

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:44:50 +0000

Hi David,

Is it possible for “mailto” to function in flash only? as well as .exe ?
I’ve tried the coding you given here but the outlook express doesn’t appear
when i test movie in flash.
Please help me !!
Thanks in advance, appreciate your sharing

Cedric

by: David Stiller

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:53:19 +0000

Hi, rickey,

If you’re familiar with PHP at all, you should be able to convert a regular PHP form handler — the kind that sends an email to you (rather than a friend) — to the sort you need. You’ll just replace the To: field with a variable sent from the SWF.

I did find quite a few “tell a friend” scripts via Google. I happen to like PHP, but any server-side scripting language will do. If you can submit to a script from an HTML page, Flash will be able to do the same. Here’s a free one that came up near the top of my search list:

Softpedia’s Tell a Friend PHP Script 1.01

by: rickey

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:59:19 +0000

hi every one big ups i have a problem making a tell a friend form
i make the form in flash cs3 but i need the proper script to go with
the submit button, i would like when my visiter click the submit button
the email is sent using the email address the user input in the friends
email field could some one shed some light on this or email me the proper script thank you in advance (rickey@superjamaica.com)

by: David Stiller

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:55:07 +0000

To Nigel …

Is it doing that even when the SWF has been uploaded to your server? isaque notice that the problem went away from tested remotely.

To isaque …

For better or worse, that’s likely a limitation that can’t be avoided.

To Brian …

I’ve never used Lotus Notes, so I can’t help you on this one. :-/ Here’s hoping other readers can!