{"id":2355,"date":"2023-02-10T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obo.zoj.mybluehost.me\/uncategorized\/mailto-link\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:56:40","slug":"mailto-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/mailto-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailto Link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can use a mailto: command to open respondents&#8217; default email client to send an email. To set this up, simply add a\u00a0mailto: command to your link&#8217;s action as an external URL. For example, if you want your link to open an email that will be sent to\u00a0ion@ioninteractive.com, the external URL for your link can be set to mailto:ion@ioninteractive.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"Current link settings\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"900\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/academy-current-20260722d-link-settings.png\" width=\"1600\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Select a link and open Settings, then Actions, to configure its destination.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>You can also append a subject line using a query string variable. For example, if you want the subject line of the email to be &#8220;Help,&#8221; you can use the below mailto command which includes a &#8220;subject&#8221; query string variable.<\/p>\n<p>mailto:ion@ioninteractive.com?subject=Help<\/p>\n<p>To take things a step further, you can also pre-populate the body of the email by appending another query string variable. If you want your email to pre-populate with the message &#8220;Please help me,&#8221; you can append it to the mailto command using a\u00a0&#8220;body&#8221; query string variable.<\/p>\n<p>mailto:ion@ioninteractive.com?subject=Help&amp;body=Please+Help+Me<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 [&quot;bullet_list&quot;,{},&quot;list_item&quot;,{}]\">If you have any questions, please contact us on <a href=\"mailto:help@ioninteractive.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">help@ioninteractive.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use a mailto: command to open respondents&#8217; default email client to send an email. To set this up, simply add a\u00a0mailto: command to your link&#8217;s action as an external URL. For example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[848,22],"tags":[2149,2150],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-en","category-the-functionalities","tag-email","tag-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9785,"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/9785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioninteractive.com\/ionacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}