# Ionic 1 mailto not working

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-1-mailto-not-working/55965>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [June 27, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-1-mailto-not-working/55965 "2016-06-27T19:44:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-1-mailto-not-working/55965/1 "2016-06-27T19:44:36Z")

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My Ionic v1 app uses both “tel:” links and “mailto:” links. I have the cordova-plugin-whitelist installed. The “tel:” links work perfectly, but the “mailto:” links do not work at all.

In the iOS simulator, the mailto link is prefixed with “unsafe:”. Additionally, I am also testing this on a Samsung Galaxy S6 and it doesn’t work on there as well.

In my config.xml:  
`<allow-intent href="mailto:*" />`

In my app.js:  
`$compileProvider.aHrefSanitizationWhitelist(/^\s*(https?|ftp|mailto|file|sms|tel|unsafe):/);`

The code I am trying to get working:  
`<a class="item item-icon-left" ng-href="tel:{{myPhone}}">Call {{myPhone}}</a>`  
later on…  
`<a class="item item-icon-left" ng-href="mailto:{{myEmail}}">Email {{myEmail}}</a>`

In the above code, the tel works but not mailto

`myEmail` is in the format of [someone@example.com](mailto:someone@example.com).

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I have looked all over the web and I just cannot get it to work.

## Edit:

If I have something like `href="mailto:someone@example.com"`, that works on the Android device. However, if I use ng-href (which I do need to use) and have `$scope.myEmail = 'someone@example.com'`, and subsequently, `ng-href={{myEmail}}"`, that does not work. So it must have something to do with ng-href.

I am on Ionic CLI version 1.7.15