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Mailto link generator

Type the parts, get a correctly encoded link. The encoding is the whole trick: spaces, line breaks and special characters in a subject or body have to be percent-encoded or the link breaks in some mail clients, and hand-writing that is how most broken mailto links happen.

Enter a recipient address to generate the link.

When a mailto link is the wrong tool

A mailto link hands the conversation to whatever mail client the visitor has configured. On a personal laptop that's fine. On a locked-down work machine, a shared computer, or a phone where the default mail app was never set up, the link opens nothing and the message is lost, and you will never know it happened.

The other cost is spam: an address published in a link is trivially scraped. If you'd rather keep the address private and actually know when someone tried to reach you, a small contact form that sends to your email does the same job without publishing the address at all. Our free plan covers 300 messages a month.

If you do want the address public but harder to scrape, the email obfuscator is the companion tool.