{mailto} automates the creation of a mailto: anchor links and optionally encodes them. Encoding emails makes it more difficult for web spiders to lift email addresses off of a site. Javascript is probably the most thorough form of encoding, although you can use hex encoding too. 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 Email addresses to carbon copy, separate entries by a comma. bcc string No n/a Email addresses to blind carbon copy, separate entries by a comma subject string No n/a Email 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 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, {textformat} and obfuscating email addresses.