Email link syntax, multiple name in send line

[jclements]

I tried adding two people for the send line but the semicolon get dropped when the Outlook email dialog appears.

Is there way to add two or more people and, if so, what is the proper syntax?

JDoe@xyz.com; DSmith@abc.com subject:Request to update this web page

[steve.ledger]

Use:

mailto:user1@domain.dom, user2@domain.dom

Each email address seperated by a comma.

[jclements]

Hi Steve, I already tried that and it doesn't work.

Outlook chokes on the comma (and space) and reads both names as one addressee.

[steve.ledger]

I don't use Outlook, but it works for me.

[Soquili]

John use the comma and space as Steve mentioned.

Outlook will display it with the comma until it verifies the names.

You can force the verification by clicking the Check Names button on the Ribbon bar in Outlook 2007. I don't recall where that button is located in older versions of outlook.

[jclements]

Bill, the "space" after the comma gets dropped so the send line looks something like this in Outlook:

name@abc.com,name@xyz.com. That is interpreted as one email address by Outlook.

[steve.ledger]

John try:

mailto:someone@yoursite.com?cc=someoneelse@theirsi te.com

[steve.ledger]

You can also try to create spaces using the hex code - for example %20
Outlook should recognise this?

So it would look like:

mailto:user1@domain.net,%20user2@domain.net

A more complex line which would include CC and BCC, plus include a subject line and body message would be:

mailto:person1@domain.net?CC=person2@domain.net&BC C=person3@domain.net&Subject=Free%20lunch&Body=Hi% 0DEveryone%20is%20invited%20to%20this%20free%20lun ch.%20Bring%20a%20friend.%0D%0DSteve

%0D = hex for a line break

PS: Ignor the space BC C= and lun ch, vBulletin does this with long strings.

PPS: You can leave out mailto: and disable auto-correct. The filter will add this for you.

[Soquili]

John if you are using fake addresses for testing they cannot and will never verify.

If you use actual online email addresses they will verify either when you click the send button, you click the check names button, or if you are composing the email they will verify once Outlook gets an acknowledgement that the addresses exist.

The two email addresses I have been using for tests do exist but I will not reveal them publicly.

BTW they are gmail accounts.

[steve.ledger]

Bill, surely verifiying is not the problem is it? You can type fake email addresses in offline mode when creating a draft can't you?
I know you could in OE.