Mailto with subject and body text not working in ASP document

[clmp]

The following Javascript code in an Classic ASP page works fine for everyone except a user with a new computer(IE11 and Outlook 2013).

window.location.href="mailto:weshipping;job?subject=" + etext + "&Body=" + bodytext;

It works(opens up new email page) for all computers(one year old) with Outlook 2013 and IE11(same version).
It will work on the new computer if I take out the subject and body text.
I am not sure if it is IE, Outlook, Exchange or what at this point.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ChrisHirst]

Outlook uses IE to 'open windows' and browsers will block javascript events and 'pop up' windows instantiated by javascript so maybe that particular machine still has javascript disabled in Outlook.

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[clmp]

Java scripting is enabled in IE. As I mentioned in the original post, the mailto command will work/open a window, if there is nothing in the subject line or body text. As soon as I send a subject line with the command it just sits there and spins. Very frustrating

 

[ChrisHirst]

By the way; This is nothing to do with ASP at all because ASP is a server side operation and what you are trying to do is ALL client-side.

secondly:
Passing subject and body as parameters in mailto: links does not work reliably with every mail client, never has, ... probably never will. And even less reliably when trying to do it with javascript into a HTML window that has nothing at all to do the mail client.




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