jQuery Confirm mailto:

Confirm with users before opening any mailto: link through their default email client.
A jQuery plugin.

Basic Usage

DEMO

Make sure you have jQuery loaded properly.

<script src="http//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Include confirm.min.js or place the plugin code at the top of your javascript file (recommended).

!function(t){t.fn.confirmMailto=function(e){var n=t.extend({message:"Do you want to send an email to $to?",to:"href",callback:function(){},success:function(){},fail:function(){}},e),a=/([a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+)/gi,i=function(e){var i=n.message,c=n.to;if(c="href"==c?t(this).attr("href").match(a):"html"==c?t(this).html():c,i=i.replace("$to",c)==i?i+c:i.replace("$to",c),confirm(i)){n.success();var o=!0}else{e.preventDefault(),n.fail();var o=!1}return setTimeout(function(){n.callback(o)},1),o};return this.filter('[href^="mailto:"]').each(function(){t(this).bind("click",i)}),this}}(jQuery);

Call the method on document load.

$(document).ready(function(){
	$('a').confirmMailto();
});

That's it.

Advanced Usage

DEMO

You can alternately call the method with the following options.

$('a.advanced').confirmMailto({
	message: 	'Are you cool enough to send an email to $to? ',
	to: 		'html', // href/html
	success:	function(){
				$('a.advanced').css('color','#3C3');
			},
	fail:		function(){
				$('a.advanced').css('color','#F66');
			},
	callback:	function(result){
				if(result){
					alert('Thank you!');
				}else{
					alert('Boooo!');
				}
			}
});