Answers.Body: <p>For many people, this new behavior is an improvement, but there are definitely others who preferred the old approach.</p>
  
  <p>The operative line in the template is <a href="https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/blob/fa938177202b0ef376e00b6cbe8be3814ef1cd28/templates/CRM/Contact/Page/Inline/Email.tpl#L57" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and the only way you don't see that is if outbound mail is turned off on the site.  (In a perfect world, there would be a site-wide setting for this.)</p>
  
  <p>If you want a customization to handle this, the easiest might be to add a bit of jQuery via a .extra.tpl, extension, or theme:</p>
  
  <pre><code>CRM.$(function($) {
    $('.crm-contact_email a.crm-popup').each(function() {
      var email = $.trim($(this).html());
      var emailLink = $('&lt;a/&gt;', {
        class: 'mailto-link',
        href: 'mailto:' + email,
        title: ts('Send an email outside of CiviCRM'),
        html: '&lt;i class="crm-i fa-envelope"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;'
      });
      $(this).after(emailLink);
    });
  });
  </code></pre>
  
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Answers.Text: one other interesting quirk of this new behavior is right-clicking on the email address does not allow the "copy email address" feature of a browser to be used, perhaps because it's not a mailto:
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Body: <p>Noticing a change after update to 4.6.  Within the contact summary, clicking an email link opens up a CiviCRM popup email dialogue.  Is there an easy way to override this behavior and provide a simple mailto: link instead like it used to be in 4.4? </p>
  
  <p>A setting? if not, an extension?</p>
  
Tags: <civimail>
Title: Contact summary email link open mailto: instead?
ThreadText: # Contact summary email link open mailto: instead?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-13)
  
  Noticing a change after update to 4.6. Within the contact summary, clicking an email link opens up a CiviCRM popup email dialogue. Is there an easy way to override this behavior and provide a simple mailto: link instead like it used to be in 4.4?
  
  A setting? if not, an extension?
  
  **Tags:** civimail
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-06-13. Score: 1
  
  For many people, this new behavior is an improvement, but there are definitely others who preferred the old approach.
  
  The operative line in the template is [here](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/blob/fa938177202b0ef376e00b6cbe8be3814ef1cd28/templates/CRM/Contact/Page/Inline/Email.tpl#L57), and the only way you don't see that is if outbound mail is turned off on the site. (In a perfect world, there would be a site-wide setting for this.)
  
  If you want a customization to handle this, the easiest might be to add a bit of jQuery via a .extra.tpl, extension, or theme:
  
  ```
  CRM.$(function($) {
    $('.crm-contact_email a.crm-popup').each(function() {
      var email = $.trim($(this).html());
      var emailLink = $('<a/>', {
        class: 'mailto-link',
        href: 'mailto:' + email,
        title: ts('Send an email outside of CiviCRM'),
        html: '<i class="crm-i fa-envelope"></i>'
      });
      $(this).after(emailLink);
    });
  });
  
  ```
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: one other interesting quirk of this new behavior is right-clicking on the email address does not allow the "copy email address" feature of a browser to be used, perhaps because it's not a mailto:  
  
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