# Mailto from external html

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-from-external-html/223468>\
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**Created:** [April 23, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-from-external-html/223468 "2007-04-23T03:59:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom2549](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@tom2549](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tom2549)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-from-external-html/223468/1 "2007-04-23T03:59:45Z")

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I’m loading some external html into my flash8 movie from a txt file. My html contains several mailto links which work when I test the movie locally but once published onto my server the links are dead. Anyone know why this is happening? I just want the users default email program to open. This seems to be a basic, common problem in the forums but I can’t seem to find a solution that works. Any suggestions would be great, Thanks!!