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hardingam
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Jun 24, 2020
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Using mailto in posts

Every once in a while I would like to post a message in a team with the email address of someone to contact for more information. If they're in the group I can do this very easily using @... However,...
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pspung
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Apr 29, 2022
Thanks for opening and posting this, Chris. Does the link now result in a 404 error for you, also? I'd like to upvote this somehow. Thanks, Peter
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pspung
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Apr 29, 2022
In a recent Teams chat with a teammate, an email address typed in was converted to a mailto link by prefixing with mailto:. So maybe this is moot now?
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    Lorien
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    May 22, 2022

    pspung - still an issue if you want to set the link text for the mailto link. Basically you can't use the Insert link feature to edit the link or its link text if it has "mailto:" in it. It just says "Invalid URL" and greys out the Insert button.  

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