Trouble using e-mail links on websites

Hi Everyone,
You know how you're browsing on a website and you decide that you would like more information, so you click on the "Contact Us" button?  Normally you would be taken directly to whoever you might use for e-mail, so that you could compose a letter right.  Well I receive the following message:  Safari can’t open “mailto:Insertnamehere.com” because Mac OS X doesn’t recognize Internet addresses starting with “mailto: 
If the website then doesn't provide the actual e-mail address to me that I can copy and paste I'm screwed. 
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks,
AnnMarie

AnnMarieG,
Mail is probably still installed on your system, please look in the Applications folder which you can locate using Finder. If you want to put it back on your Dock then simply drag it from Applications to the Dock and it will appear.
Because you are not using Mail it sounds like you are using Yahoo's web based email, this is not an Apple product so you will need to contact Yahoo for help.
Also because you are a novice I strongly recommend you bookmark and  frequently reference
Mac 101:     http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
Switch 101:     http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

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