Postman SMTP Mailer site email link question

  • I’m building a WordPress site on a local machine running WAMP server.
    I just downloaded the Postman SMTP Mailer plugin and let the wizard set it up for me.

    When I create a link on a page so someone who visits the site can send me an email, do I use the “mailto:[email protected]” thingy in the page code, or is there some other code I should use?

    I’m not even sure any of this will work is the site is not actually on a “live” server. Someone is gonna put it up live for me after I get the final touches on the site. Trying to get this email thingy workin’ before it goes live is one of those final touches.

    Thanks so much for any help offered here.

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  • You could enter a mailto: link right on your page, but this makes it easy for bots to harvest. There is a plugin called Graceful Email Obfuscator which also adds an email link to your post/page, but obscures the actual email address from spambots. Mailto links open in a mail client on your visitor’s computer, and Postman actually has nothing to do with that.

    Some people like to use a Contact Form on their website instead of using a mailto: link. My favourite is Contact Form 7, but there are many, many others. It is for plugins like these that Postman was built.

    Thread Starter adhdcelt

    (@adhdcelt)

    The mailto: links on my pages don’t work.
    When I click on one, nothing happens.
    I mean, nothing. It just sits there, staring at me.

    Also, I’m using Contact Form 7 as well.
    I’ve tried several configurations on the settings page for it, and I continue to get “Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact your administrator by another method” error with a bold red border around it every time I try to send a message from the form.

    That’s why I installed the Postman plugin; I thought that plugin might solve the problems.

    The mailto: links on my pages don’t work.

    The code for a mailto link is <a href="mailto:user@domain?subject=">link text</a> If that doesn’t work, there is a problem with your own web browser, email client or operating system. Not WordPress.

    I continue to get “Failed to send your message….”

    This problem is best posted on the Contact Form 7 support forum, but since you’re already using Postman, look in the email log (Tools > Email Log) and you will see what the error was from Contact Form 7. Tell us what the error was and we’ll help you fix it.

    Thread Starter adhdcelt

    (@adhdcelt)

    Thanks so much!

    I had the mailto variable in “applications” in Firefox Options set to “WLMail.url.mailto.” When I changed it to gmail, the site mailto link worked, but it opened up a gmail.com window.

    I’m also using the Email Encoder Bundle WordPress plugin.

    I don’t understand all this email stuff, but I’m assuming that what opens up depends on the user’s machine who visits my site and clicks on the mailto link. Right?

    And, even though the mailto link will now at least go to the gmail.com page, I get the same error with CF7 when I try to send a message. I’ll got to their forum with that.

    I’m assuming that what opens up depends on the user’s machine who visits my site and clicks on the mailto link. Right?

    That’s right. On my Mac, mailto links open the Mail app.

    For Firefox, read this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-program-used-open-email-links

    even though the mailto link will now at least go to the gmail.com page, I get the same error with CF7 when I try to send a message.

    The mailto link and CF7 are completely unrelated. Look in Postman’s Email Log to see what the sending mail error from CF7 is.

    Thread Starter adhdcelt

    (@adhdcelt)

    Thanks so much!

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