{mailto} automates the creation of mailto: links and optionally encodes them. Encoding e-mails makes it more difficult for web spiders to lift e-mail addresses off of your site. Attribute Name Type Required Default Description address string Yes n/a the e-mail address text string No n/a the text to display, default is the e-mail address encode string No none How to encode the e-mail. Can be one of none, hex, javascript or javascript_charcode. cc string No n/a e-mail addresses to carbon copy. Separate entries by a comma. bcc string No n/a e-mail addresses to blind carbon copy. Separate entries by a comma. subject string No n/a e-mail subject. newsgroups string No n/a newsgroups to post to. Separate entries by a comma. followupto string No n/a addresses to follow up to. Separate entries by a comma. extra string No n/a any extra information you want passed to the link, such as style sheet classes javascript is probably the most thorough form of encoding, although you can use hex encoding too. me@example.com {mailto address="me@example.com" text="send me some mail"} send me some mail {mailto address="me@example.com" encode="javascript"} {mailto address="me@example.com" encode="hex"} m&..snipped...#x6f;m mailto address="me@example.com" subject="Hello to you!"} me@example.com {mailto address="me@example.com" cc="you@example.com,they@example.com"} me@example.com {mailto address="me@example.com" extra='class="email"'} me@example.com {mailto address="me@example.com" encode="javascript_charcode"} ]]> See also escape, Obfuscating E-mail Addresses and {textformat}