Can a spam bot read a mailto link?
In answer to the comment above, spam bots are VERY basic, they are designed to scan for HTML mailto links, obfuscation itself encodes the mailto link thus the spam bot cannot read it. It is unlikely there is a smart enough bot to decode this, as a smart bot would not be cost effective.
What do you need to know about mailto link?
Mailto linkis a hyperlinkthat allows user to send an email to a specific address directly from an HTMLdocument, without having to copy and enter it into an email clientlike Gmail or Outlook. First we will look at the “link part” of the mailto link and then put it inside HTML tags.
Why are there special characters in mailto link generator?
As you can see the example includes some unusual characters. This is because the Mailto link generator encoded all special characters in order to format the link properly. Here is a short list of characters we are used to translated to UTF-8 encoded characters:
Can you create a mailto link with multiple recipients?
It is not advisableto have multiple recipients in the “To”, “Cc” or “Bcc” fields of the mailto link. You can do it, but it may not work. If you have already decided to create a mailto link with multiple recipients and cannot be discouraged, this is how to go about it: Add multiple email addresses. Separate them with commas (,).