# How can i open the visitors mail program by clicking on the mail adress in the contact page?

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**Created:** [August 29, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-can-i-open-the-visitors-mail-program-by-clicking-on-the-mail-adress-in-the-contact-page/2031 "2015-08-29T19:30:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tnittner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/tnittner/32/4586_2.png) [@tnittner](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/tnittner)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-can-i-open-the-visitors-mail-program-by-clicking-on-the-mail-adress-in-the-contact-page/2031/1 "2015-08-29T19:30:38Z")

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ha friends and neighbours, i am sure everybody knows the answer except me - of course, but here goes: i have a number of clients who have their mail adress but - for one reason or other - are unable to configurate their mail program to the new adress that they have to get if i use doobox’s mail stack. so i had the idea of just publishing thier mailadress (or some other indicator) on a “contact” page and make it a link to their mail program. thus their mail program would pop open and people could write a message which would reach my client through his regular mail adress. i hope i made myself clear: contact page \> name or mal adress as a link \> mail program opens up \> mail gets sent through the clients regular mail without having to configure a new mail.  
thanks much and cheerio, tomas

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**Author:** ![MarkSealey](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/marksealey/32/22895_2.png) [@MarkSealey](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MarkSealey)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-can-i-open-the-visitors-mail-program-by-clicking-on-the-mail-adress-in-the-contact-page/2031/2 "2015-08-29T20:17:34Z")

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tnittner,

Because spammers will be very quick to harvest any real address and send trash to your clients mercilessly, it’s always - always - inadvisable to expose an email address on a web page.

You might want to consider something like [this](http://www.doobox.co.uk/stacks_store/demos/obscureemail.html).

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**Author:** ![tnittner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/tnittner/32/4586_2.png) [@tnittner](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/tnittner)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-can-i-open-the-visitors-mail-program-by-clicking-on-the-mail-adress-in-the-contact-page/2031/3 "2015-08-30T08:19:20Z")

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thanks much @MarkSealey, i did just what you suggested! tomas

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**Author:** ![robbeattie](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/robbeattie/32/78_2.png) [@robbeattie](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/robbeattie)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-can-i-open-the-visitors-mail-program-by-clicking-on-the-mail-adress-in-the-contact-page/2031/4 "2015-08-30T09:18:58Z")

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There’s also this - [http://www.doobox.co.uk/apps/app\_demos/securemailtogenerator.html](http://www.doobox.co.uk/apps/app_demos/securemailtogenerator.html)

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**Author:** ![tnittner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/tnittner/32/4586_2.png) [@tnittner](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/tnittner)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-can-i-open-the-visitors-mail-program-by-clicking-on-the-mail-adress-in-the-contact-page/2031/5 "2015-08-30T11:05:34Z")

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thank you @robbeattie, that looks good too, unfortunately (just spent 7 quid) i already bought “obscure email”!  
cheerio, tomas

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**Author:** ![robbeattie](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/robbeattie/32/78_2.png) [@robbeattie](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/robbeattie)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/how-can-i-open-the-visitors-mail-program-by-clicking-on-the-mail-adress-in-the-contact-page/2031/6 "2015-08-30T11:25:12Z")

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I’m sure you won’t be disappointed. The stack looks much quicker to implement than the free App.

Rob