Adding Custom URL - the "Add" button is not activated

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When I type in a custom URL, the add button is not activated (i.e. when I click 
it, nothing happens.  

What browser do you use? Chrome

What email service do you use? Hotmail

Any other information I might need to know? What I am trying to do is use 
hotmail to send a link, but I want to always send it to my personal email 
address.  i.e., when the hotmail window opens, I would like my email address to 
already be in the "To:" box so I don't have to type anything.  One less thing 
to type!

Thanks in advance!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rakilac...@hotmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 2:55

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What exactly are you inputting in that custom URL field?

Original comment by fam....@live.nl on 8 May 2012 at 5:38

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I just simply did a copy and paste of the example in the wiki:

http://mail.live.com/?rru=compose?To={to}&CC={cc}&subject={subject}&body={body}

I also tried putting my email address after "To=" but the Add button just stays 
greyed out...

Original comment by rakilac...@hotmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 12:54

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Also tried this:

http://mail.live.com/?rru=compose?To=rakilackey@hotmail.com

Original comment by rakilac...@hotmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 1:05

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UPDATE: The example in the wiki works this morning! (it didn't last night), but 
when I try to put in my email address (as in example 2 above, the add button 
greys out.  I'm sure it's a syntax issue but I'm not sure how to correct it.  
Thanks for responding!

Original comment by rakilac...@hotmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 1:13

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Hi, 
I think the thing that went wrong yesterday is that you accidently also copied 
some spaces or other whitespace from the surroundings. I just released an 
update which should fix that.

The URL in comment 4 won't work, because the 'To' address is the address an 
email should be send *to*, it's not the address you use to send it. To be 
valid, either '{to}' or '{url}' must be specified in the URL.

Does this help you?

Original comment by fam....@live.nl on 8 May 2012 at 3:39

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Ok, the copy and paste of the example works now!  But, what I would like to do 
is, when hotmail pops up, I would like to have my email address already 
pre-loaded in the "to" address, so that all I have to do is hit the "send" 
button (yes, I'm either very lazy or very efficient depending on your 
perspective).  That's what I was trying to do with comment 3 above.  Is there 
another way to do that with a custom URL?  This may not be possible with 
hotmail, I don't know.  I have yet to find a Chrome extension that does this, 
and your app comes the closest to giving me the option to (I hope).  Hope this 
all make sense.  Thanks again!

Original comment by rakilac...@hotmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 4:20

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Just to make things clear for me: you want to send emails to your own address, 
and to no-one else?
If so, the following could work:
http://mail.live.com/?rru=compose?To=your_email_address&CC={cc}&subject={subject
}&body={body}&fake_parameter={to}

If you still want to be able to send emails to other people when clicking a 
mailto: link, but also want to email yourself, you can use something like this:
http://mail.live.com/?rru=compose?To=your_email_address,{to}&CC={cc}&subject={su
bject}&body={body}

Does this help you?

Original comment by fam....@live.nl on 8 May 2012 at 4:33

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That's correct - and both of your examples work!!  That's exactly what I was 
looking for - 3 clicks and I can send a link to my personal email address!  
I've been looking for an extension that would do this for a long time.  Now I 
can get rid of Addthis and use yours instead.  Thanks again so much for your 
prompt responses, I will look for the donate button :).

Original comment by rakilac...@hotmail.com on 8 May 2012 at 5:02

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Thanks!!

Original comment by fam....@live.nl on 8 May 2012 at 5:18

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Original comment by fam....@live.nl on 8 May 2012 at 5:19

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