How to set the share by mail on the footer part of the website.

[fmorfini]

Hi,

I'm having issues with the email/envelope icon in the footer. When I click on it, I would expect to generate a new email message either on a local email app (e.g., I'm using mail.app from a Mac) or some other way, but instead a new blank tab opens up on the web browser. I'm using the latest google chrome version 127.0.6533.100 (Official Build) (x86_64).

This is my repo and the website. Note, that I've currently removed the envelope icon to avoid issues on the live website, however the issue I was having can be reproduced by changing the following info on these fils:

/_data/icons_builder.yml (unchanged compared to the template):

mail:
  pre: "mailto:"
  icon: "fas fa-envelope"

/_data/social.yml:

share:
  email: true

/_data/icons.yml:

mail: [email protected]

Also, I tried to get around this issue by adding the email as plain text in the footer. I don't know if this is a separate issue, but the text I entered for footer_textin the _config.yml file isn't displaying in the website:

footer_text: >
  [email protected]
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it does show up when I change the _includes/default/footer.liquid:

        {{ site.footer_text | default: "[email protected]" }}</p>

Any suggestions?
Thank you for putting out this great template!

[sylhare]

I'll check it out, thanks for mentioning it 👍

[sylhare]

@fmorfini so the email share in /_data/social.yml is actually for the blog post:

To get it as part of the footer you can edit /_data/icons.yml

And then set the mail as:

mail: [email protected]

It's independent from the footer_text.