Is it safe to use mailto to submit payment information to e-mail if it is done through an ssl and the information is not in the mail box long???

Im trying to create some simple payment forms and mailto seems the simplest way, but is it safe?

mailto? you're going to want to use like PHP/ASP/etc to do this.

When you say mailto, do you mean a perl script or something, or are you under the impression that the html mailto: will work?

If you want security, i'd worry about encyrpting it. Check out pgp or something.

A form mail to i.e. with an email address in the form tag is not secure as once it leaves the SSL connection it ceases to be encrypted when it becomes and email.

So there is no way of doing it withough some sort of programming other than html?

And keeping the information secure? No.