A mailto: link on a web page launches the email client on the local machine,
starts a new email and fills in the To: field with the mailto: address.
This will likely exclude computers in public places like Libraries. A
better solution would be to set the web page up with a contact form folks
fill out that is emailed to you by the web server, itself.
Hal
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"db" <db@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a website which has a mailto back to me. The mailto was composed
using
> my Word 2003 using Vista. If I look up my website from my home computer I
can
> email out to myself on the mailto. If I go to the library, in two
different
> counties here in the uk, and try it, both of them come up 'Could not
perform
> this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed'
Is
> this 'client' on my computer, my host's computer, or the library
computers?
> Libraries will not be keen to have untraceable emailers - so can they
enable
> the refusal to send? Do businesses have these problems making sure their
> communication paths actually work? Going into home registries seems rather
> brave. David Barnes.