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HTML emails, stationery, signatures and attachments have their uses, but I can’t stand receiving emails with unnecessary bits and pieces like these. Crazy formatting or unnecessary “extras”.

So it opens the default mail client on their computer, which they don’t even use.

Someone who uses a web-based email service clicks a mailto link, but they haven’t tweaked Firefox to open the link in Gmail. I’m sure there are options for other email services, but the default scenario is pretty embarrassing. Also, not everyone uses Firefox, and not everyone uses Gmail. But you can’t rely on all of your readers setting up Firefox in this way. If you use Firefox and Gmail, you can get Firefox to open Gmail when you click a mailto link. Unpredictable results when clicking the link. You’re probably going to receive spam anyway, but you stand to receive a lot more spam if your email address can be picked up by bots that search the web for email addresses. Whether you display your email address on your site, or you put the email address in a mailto link – or both – making it visible is a bad idea. I’m not a fan of these links – here are 10 reasons why. When clicked, a “mailto” link creates a new message in your email software, instead of sending through a form on the blog. However, some blogs use a “mailto” link instead. Many blogs use a contact form for this, and I highly recommend it.

This is a guest post by Ben Barden of Top Ten Blog Tips, where every post contains a list of ten blogging tips.Īs a blogger it’s very important that people can contact you privately.