Editing Mailto (section)

{{Short description|URI scheme for linking email addresses}}
{{confused|Malito}}
{{lowercase}}
'''mailto''' is a [[Uniform Resource Identifier]] (URI) scheme for [[email addresses]]. It is used to produce [[hyperlink]]s on [[websites]] that allow users to send an [[email]] to a specific address directly from an [[HTML]] document, without having to copy it and entering it into an [[email client]]. 

It was originally defined by [[Request for Comments]] (RFC) 1738 in December 1994,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738|title=Uniform Resource Locators (URL)|author1-first=T.|author1-last=Berners-Lee|author2-first=Larry|author2-last=Masinter|author3-first=M.|author3-last=McCahill|date=December 1994|accessdate=11 September 2021}}</ref> expanded by <nowiki>RFC</nowiki> 2368 in July 1998,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2368|title=The mailto URL scheme|author1-first=Paul|author1-last=Hoffman|author2-first=Larry|author2-last=Masinter|author3-first=Jamie|author3-last=Zawinski|author3-link=Jamie Zawinski|date=July 1998|accessdate=26 September 2015}}</ref> and refined by <nowiki>RFC</nowiki> 6068 in October 2010.<ref name="rfc6068">{{cite web|url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6068|title=The 'mailto' URI Scheme|author1-first=Martin|author1-last=Duerst|author2-first=Larry|author2-last=Masinter|author3-first=Jamie|author3-last=Zawinski|author3-link=Jamie Zawinski|date=October 2010|accessdate=26 September 2015}}</ref>