Mail Links

The mailto scheme is used to launch the Mail app and open the email compose sheet. When specifying a mailto URL, you must provide the target email address. The following examples show strings formatted for Safari and for native apps.

• HTML link:

  <a href="mailto:frank@wwdcdemo.example.com">John Frank</a>

• Native app URL string:

  mailto:frank@wwdcdemo.example.com

You can also include a subject field, a message, and multiple recipients in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields. (In iOS, the from attribute is ignored.) The following example shows a mailto URL that includes several different attributes:

mailto:foo@example.com?cc=bar@example.com&subject=Greetings%20from%20Cupertino!&body=Wish%20you%20were%20here!

For detailed information on the format of the mailto scheme, see RFC 2368.