mailto: not working in lotus notes

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I have a basic mailto that works on Outlook, Outlook express and most other mail programs. It doesn't work on Lotus..the subject is inserted but when lotus tries to insert the body a "Field" box comes up in the middle of the message screen.. i have some very basic test code that isn't even working....

<a href=&quot;mailto:dailycheck@wombat.org1st.com?subject=test for lisa&body=this should be in the message&quot;>Please click here</a>;

The person is using IE5...Has anyone had any problems with Lotus?...Thanks

 

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I am having the same problem. I have tried several things and haven't come up with a solution yet. I've just started scouring the Web for others with the same problem and possible solutions? I have found, however, that if the length of the text I want to insert with the &quot;&BODY=&quot; is small enough, I have no problems. But I need to insert a couple hundred characters of text...I noted in your example, however, that you have spaces in your text. Are you including the &quot;escape&quot; feature with JavaScript? i.e. Set your text to var bodyText=&quot;this should be in the message.&quot;, then mailto:URL?subject=test%20for%20lisa&body=&quot; + escape(bodyText). The escape code does the same thing that I did with your subject line (replacing spaces, etc.) with &quot;%20&quot; or whatever the special character may be.

 

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I just found the following on the WebReference.com site:

&quot;Lotus Notes support only the address field of the mailto: URL, and will create a mess with the other properties if specified.&quot;

We may be out of luck if trying to code for Notes.

 

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yes however, notes have fixed the problem i think in 5.07(or something like that)...but confirm that on the lotus website...so u or your client might be able to upgrade...my client is a major bank, so i'll have to find another way...thanks for your note