What is the format of compose links to web mail clients such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and AOL?

Question

In my application, I\'m currently using mailto: links to open email compose dialogs. This is terrible for web mail users, since it typically causes Outlook or Apple Mail to

Answer 1

Regarding which other web mail clients to support it depends a lot on the users. In Germany for example you should add GMX and web.de to the list.

Answer 2

Some searching led to this as the proper format for AOL Mail links:
http://webmail.aol.com/Mail/ComposeMessage.aspx?to=TO&subject=SUBJECT&body=BODY&cc=CC&bcc=BCC

Source: http://dev.aol.com/api/openmail/webmail (under 'External Invocation of Web Mail'), and some Google searching to find the parameters.

Once you have these 4 covered, I think you've got essentially all of the webmail clients covered.

Answer 3

The example google URL above returns a google error.

The February 2014 post to thread 2583928 recommends replacing view=cm&fs=1&tf=1 with &v=b&cs=wh

Answer 4

Try these updated ones

For outlook

https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/deeplink/compose?to=your@email.com

For AOL

https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-us/composemessage?to=your@email.com

But I should warn you that, prefilled body if at all contains line feed(new line) character encoded in URL, that line feed won't take effect at present.