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 {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. 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}