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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ChrisHoardMVP
May 31, 2022
Therese_Solimeno Lorien

I reproduced it and opened this new feedback

Support mailto:// in the address field for Hyperlinks in Chat Formatting · Community (microsoft.com)

Hope that answers your question. I'd like to see this so please vote up!

Best, Chris

pspung

Copper Contributor

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?

Lorien

Copper Contributor

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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