# Silly Mailto problem - pulling my hair out!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-mailto-problem-pulling-my-hair-out/310138>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 2, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-mailto-problem-pulling-my-hair-out/310138 "2010-06-02T16:12:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![fulci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f9b8f/32.png) [@fulci](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fulci)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-mailto-problem-pulling-my-hair-out/310138/1 "2010-06-02T16:12:29Z")

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Hey all, I have a button, in Flash 8, which works when I put:

```auto
on (release) {

	//Goto Webpage Behavior
	getURL("http://www.macromedia.com","_self");
	//End Behavior

}

```

BUT if I change it to:

```auto
on (release) {

	//Goto Webpage Behavior
	getURL("mailto:test@test.com");
	//End Behavior

} 

```

It just won’t work. 😕 I’ve searched this place and web, and everything I find, I try to no avail. I’m guessing I’m doing something wrong-and-it’s-right-infront-of-my-face silly.

Even if I just add a mailto link to some text though the property box, it doesn’t seem to work.

Could anyone please lend me a hand? 😕