You can respond to a posting in a variety of ways on Front Porch Forum:
Reply to Forum
To submit your reply as a posting to the Forum, click the orange "Reply to Forum" button. Compose your message and click “Submit.” A success message should be displayed.
Email Author
Click the orange “Email Author” button below the posting to open your email client and compose your reply.
If the "Email Author" button does not work for you, first try switching or updating your browser. If that doesn't help, you may need to update or configure your email to support "mailto" links (more below).
In any case, you can follow these steps to email the author of a posting:
- Hover your mouse/arrow over the "Email Author" button, and right click. (On a mobile device, press and hold.)
- Choose "Copy Email Address."
- Open up a Compose page in your email.
- Right-click the area where the recipient's email address goes.
- Click Paste. This should cause the email address to be pasted in, ready for sending (once you compose your message!)
- There may be extra text after the email when you paste it in. Delete that.
How to configure mailto links
Email, or "mailto" links are special web links that open up a new email message with the recipient’s email address already filled in. The instructions to set this up will depend on which email client / provider you use (e.g. Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, or Apple Mail), as well as which browser (e.g. Chrome or Firefox) and device.
- Google has instructions on how to configure Google Chrome and Gmail to support mailto links. If you use Chrome as your browser, this is the easiest option.
- Mozilla has instructions on how to configure Firefox to support mailto links.