Creating a Signature (Linking to Email)

A signature is nothing more than some sort of generic sign-off message that has an email address embedded within it. A few stock wording choices—in popular flavors—are

Traditionally, the paragraph containing the signature uses the Address property, although that is not required.

What is required is a mailto link—a link that, when clicked, opens the visitor's email program and starts a new message, preaddressed to an email address specified in the link. Mailto links let you provide your visitors with ...

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