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, 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 = $('', {
        class: 'mailto-link',
        href: 'mailto:' + email,
        title: ts('Send an email outside of CiviCRM'),
        html: ''
      });
      $(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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