title: HTML5 How to open the default email program without composing a new message
body: <p>I know you can have someone open their local email application (like 'mail.app' on mac or outlook on windows) and compose a new message with the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>window.location.href = "mailto:mail@domain.com";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I was wondering if it is possible to open the local email application without also composing a new message?</p>
  
  <p>The use-case is, after registration, people need to check their email to confirm their account. I do not need them to send a message.</p>
  
  <p><strong>UX notes outside the scope of this question</strong>
  I do not force a redirect, but rather I have a 'check my email' and 'skip' button after logging in. I have coded, that 'if the email contains gmail.com' to redirect to mail.google.com, but there is no way to exhaustively hard-code all possible email addresses and to which url they should be redirected? therefore if the email address is not any of the major ones, I would like to opt to open the user's local email client (without composing an email message) - if this is possible.</p>