URL to compose a message in Gmail with full Gmail interface and specified to bcc subject etc

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I found a post that provides an example for a link which opens just a compose message window  However  I would like it to open a window with the full Gmail interface but ready to compose a new message   Of course this works   https   mail google com mail u 0  compose  But  I would also like to add a subject  to  bcc  etc  I tried something like the following  but to no avail   https   mail google com mail  to inbox example com amp bcc admin example com amp subject Hey compose  Any ideas  Thanks

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Many others have done an excellent job here giving a basic answer, especially Tobias Mühl. As mentioned, GMail's Api very closely matches the definition given by RFC2368 and RFC6068. This is true of the extended form of the mailto: links, but it's also true in the commonly-used forms found in the other answers. Of the five parameters, four are identical (such as to, cc, bcc and body) and one received only slight modification (su is gmail's version of subject).

If you want to know more about what you can do with mailTo gmail URLs, then these RFCs might be of help. Unfortunately, Google has not published any source themselves.

To clarify the parameters:

to - Email to who
su (gmail API) / subject (mailTo API) - Email Title
body - Email Body
bcc - Email Blind-Carbon Copy
cc - Email Carbon Copy address

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It s worth pointing out that if you have multiple Gmail accounts  you may want to use the URL approach because you can customize which account to compose from   e g   https   mail google com mail u 0  inbox compose new    https   mail google com mail u 1  inbox compose new   Or if you know the email address you are sending from  replace the numeric index with the email address   https   mail google com mail u your email com  inbox compose new

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Bookmarking this URL should give you a full-screen compose window  without any distractions   https   mail google com mail  view cm amp fs 1 amp tf 1  Additionally  if you want to be future-proof  see for instance how other URLs in this question stopped working  you can bookmark a link to   mailto    It will open your default email client and you probably already have Gmail configured for that purpose

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For Chrome    Set your email manager to Gmail      Write mailto  in the address bar and press enter    Easier    Edit search engines         Write mt and enter in address bar

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https   mail google com mail u 0 x   amp v b amp eot 1 amp pv tl amp cs b  This link works for composing directly in m gmail com as mobile in a desktop browser  Why  It is really faster

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This seems to work  for now    https   mail google com mail  view cm amp fs 1 amp to someone example com amp su SUBJECT amp body BODY amp bcc someone else example com

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The example URLs for standard gmail  above  return a google error   The February 2014 post to thread 2583928 recommends replacing view cm amp fs 1 amp tf 1 with  amp v b amp cs wh   Note  It also no longer seems possible to autopopulate the mail body

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When you click on compose email in Gmail notice that the url changes from https   mail google com mail u 0  inbox to https   mail google com mail u 0  inbox compose new  Now when you enter say a email id xyz gmail com   the value for compose changes now the url became https   mail google com mail u 0  inbox compose 150b0f7ffb682642   So this is working fine with my html hyperlink until the account is signed in  but if the account is not signed in it would take me the login page and when I enter the credentials somehow this compose value is lost and this does not work

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The GMail web client supports mailto  links  For regular  gmail com accounts  https   mail google com mail  extsrc mailto amp url      For G Suite accounts on domain gsuitedomain com  https   mail google com a gsuitedomain com mail  extsrc mailto amp url          needs to be replaced with a urlencoded mailto  link   Demo  https   mail google com mail  extsrc mailto amp url mailto 3A 3Fto 3Dsomeguy 40gmail com 26bcc 3Dmyattorney 40gmail com 2Cbuzzfeed 40gmail com 26subject 3DHi 2520There 26body 3Dbody 2520goes 2520here  Learn more about mailto  links by reading RFC6068

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