Quote Originally Posted by zapatak View Post
Hi, sorry to have confused the issue by not really describing the problem...

It is obvious that there is more to this e-mail business than meets the eye!

To be clear, I would like to place a button on the webpage which the user can click. Once he does this a mail is sent to a pre-determined recipient with no further intervention necessary on the part of the sender. I think that this would be a useful function and see many possible uses in the fields of opinion polls, voting etc

My own intended use is slightly more complex....

I am running a site for a group of devoted people who want to find some money to restore their 18nth century church organ. www.aobv.fr We are in Provence France and the site is in French.

The idea is to set up a crowd funding operation. The one touch mail button will send a mail to a mail address which is temporarilly closed. The 'out of office' reply will be a pre-prepared mail explaining the organ situation and asking for donations. This mail will arrive in the mail inbox of the original button clicker who can then forward it as many times as he wishes to friends, family and other people he considers likely to make a donation.

I hope that this explains why I am trying to send an empty mail to myself...

I hope that you can help or maybe even suggest another way of arriving at the same result.

Best wishes

zap
It can't be done exactly as you describe - you can't activate the email client on the computer and make it send the email immediately. Without the email client you won't know the users email address.

It would be very sneaky if a button press gave away a users email address.

Just be upfront and explain what is going on on the web page than try and manipulate people via email.