how do i automaticlly populate the from field?

[Marcos]

i have several email accounts and would like to use the "mailto" which I know
how to use to send from a webpage but i'd like for it to use a specific
mailbox in the "From" field. Have tried "[email protected]" but it will not
populate it. How do I get that specific mail address to appear?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The mailto protocol has no attribute for setting the sender of a message.

 

[Robert@Beck]

As stated below you cannot set the FROM attribute in a mailto: HTML command,
however there are other attributes that you can set to fool it - or in your
case if your using outlook for your mail client you can set it up to filter
the e-mail for its source.

I would suggest setting the SUBJECT: attribute or BODY: attribute in the
mailto: option so that for example:

<a
href="mailto:[email protected][email protected]&[email protected]&subject=Shipping%20Information%20Request&body=Please%20tell%20me%20if%20my%20order%20has%20shipped!">SHIPPING REQUEST</a>

In this case the when the person click on the link the subject field would
be auto populated with "Shipping Information request" and in the body the
text "Please tell me if my order has shipped!" would be auto populated:

In this way you could pre set the subject field to read
(e-mail address removed)

then set a rule in outlook to direct all mail recieved with that subject
field to route the mail to whatever folder you want.

Hope this helps