# Mailto issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-issue/196886>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 11, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-issue/196886 "2006-08-11T17:09:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![mpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@mpr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mpr)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mailto-issue/196886/1 "2006-08-11T17:09:24Z")

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I think I’m going loopy…

My movie has a mc link which is coded to pop open an email:

```auto

mailto.onPress = function(){
	getURL("mailto:mpr@haphouserecords.net");
}

```

But it doesn’t do anything. This link is on the same layer, there is no goofy movie-in-movie thing going on here, nothing that I can see would cause a problem. Do I have this coded wrong or something?

can someone check to see if it works for them?  
Here’s an example of what I did: