How to include e-mail links

Using the uofl.mail email gateway

Getting uofl.mail to work is easy; simply make a link to the following URL:

      http://www.louisville.edu/cgi-bin/uofl.mail?userid

inserting your Athena/Groupwise userid or your e-mail nickname in place of the userid in the above address. So, for example, if your Athena/Groupwise userid is jtkirk01, then you would use:

      http://www.louisville.edu/cgi-bin/uofl.mail?jtkirk01

or, if your e-mail nickname is jim.kirk, then you would use:

      http://www.louisville.edu/cgi-bin/uofl.mail?jim.kirk

This will automatically generate a generic email HTML form with fields for the sender's email address, the sender's real name, the subject of the message, and a message body. For an example of a generic email form generated by uofl.mail program, look here:

     http://www.louisville.edu/cgi-bin/uofl.mail

Setting the subject of the message

You also have the option of specifying a subject for the message in the URL. For example:

      http://www.louisville.edu/cgi-bin/uofl.mail?name=jtkirk01&subject=Beam+me+up!

Notice in the example that when specifying a subject, you must prefix the userid with "name=", and that spaces in the subject are specified using a "+".