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<title>mailto</title>
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<author> 
<firstname>Christopher</firstname>
<surname>Yeleighton</surname>
<email>giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl</email></author>

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<date>2012-01-28</date>
<releaseinfo>&kde; 4.8</releaseinfo>
</articleinfo>
<para>
The kioslave mailto is responsible for launching the mail composer of your
choice when you open a &URL; in the mailto scheme (<ulink url="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6068">RFC6068</ulink>).
</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Syntax</term>
<listitem><para>The syntax of a mailto &URL; follows the following pattern:</para>

<para>mailto:recipients?query</para>

<para>where recipients form a list of restricted &SMTP; address specifications, and the
query part may contain one or more of the following parameters:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>&amp;to=recipients</term>
<listitem><para>Specifies additional recipients.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>&amp;cc=recipients</term>
<listitem><para>Specifies additional recipients of carbon copies.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>&amp;bcc=recipients</term>
<listitem><para>Specifies additional recipients of blind carbon copies. These recipients
will receive the message, but all other recipients will not know about that.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>&amp;body=text</term>
<listitem><para>Specifies the text of the message.  This text should not be long, as there
may be hard limits on how long an &URL; may be.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>&amp;subject=text</term>
<listitem><para>Specifies the subject of the message.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Example</term>
<listitem><para>   
<literal>mailto:info@kde.org?cc=kde@kde.org&amp;subject=Thank%20you!&amp;body=KDE%20rocks!%20How%20can%20I%20help%3F</literal>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Configuration</term>
<listitem><para>   
Choose the application to handle mailto locators in &systemsettings; <menuchoice><guimenu>Workspace Appearance and Behaviour</guimenu><guimenuitem>Default Applications</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. 
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>
  
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