email link in website won't go to my email

[Geek-9pm]

yes this is a webpage I'm trying to make on my computer. I haven't used ftp or a host yet. I'm just learning.

That does matter. Not all HTML commands can e used on the local computer.  Still, if you have a local e-milt client that can do SMTP then you should be able to get the mailto thing to work.


Mailto Syntax Tutorial
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Suitable local e-mail clients are:
  Mozilla Thunderbird
  Opera Mail
  Pegasus
  SeaMonkey
  Windows Live Mail

These are not web mail. They do not use your browser. They compose and send out e-m,ail using SMTP protocol.
If one of the above has been set as your e-mail client, then the mail to code should  work.

I hope this is of some help. 

[jacobixxx8]

Soybean,
I click on the address and windows live comes up the same as it does
when I click on my email in my starting a website .But when I click on my email it don't go to my email.
I didn't send to that address you gave me.

[soybean]

By "windows live", I presume you mean Windows Live Mail (WLM).  Right? 

And, since you do not normally use WLM for email, I presume you have not set up an email account in it. So, when you click on the email link in the web page you have created on your computer, WLM opens because it is an email program.  Do you understand? 

In order for WLM to know how to send or receive email, you have to set up the email account in it.  It knows nothing about your email accounts until you create, i.e. set up, an account in it.  Do you understand? 

[soybean]

Here's some info on setting up an exede.net or wildblue.net email account: http://help.exede.net/articles/General/POP-IMAP-settings-for-Exede-and-WildBlue-email   The setup will be very similar to this: http://help.exede.net/articles/General/3945

[jacobixxx8]

Thanks a lot. I'm quite sure all I need to do is download WLM and it'll all work.
I haven't had time to do it just yet. Then all will be connected.

[soybean]

Well, you seem to have stated that you have WLM.  You said "windows live" opens ....   And, I asked for confirmation that you mean WLM.  If you don't have WLM already, then what is the "windows live" that opens when you click on an email link. 

Also, even if you do not have WLM now and you download and install it, you still have to create/setup your email account(s) in it, as I previously posted.