Formatting an email address parameter

[CliffDillard]

I need help in formating a parameter passed to a form. I have a display that includes a person's email address (using an ASP and DatabaseResults in Frontpage). Currently when someone clicks on the email address it launches their email software to send an email to this person, using the mailto: function. I am trying to replace this with a simple SMTP function that sends the email from my site. I do not want the user to have to rekey the address so I want to pass the email address as a parameter to this new function. I call the new function and pass the email address as a paramater but I do not know how to format the "initial value" for that email input field on the SMTP form. For example, <%=FP_FieldHTML(fp_rs,"PersonalEmail")%> does not work because I am not retrieving the data from a record set. So I assume the fp_rs portion needs to be replaced but I cannot find an example. I have found articles on sending data between forms but this is a case of selecting it from a display and launching the second program.
Thanks for your feedback.