How can I get a mailto link in an org-mode latex export to PDF for the #+email: keyword

Question

When I'm specifying my mail address

#+email: bla@comp.org

I'm getting a text footnote bla@comp.org for an org latex export of a report. I'd like to have a complete mailto hyperlink though.

I tried

#+email: [[mailto:bla@comp.org][bla@comp.org]]

or

#+email: \href{mailto:bla@comp.org}{bla@comp.org}

(The problem here seems to be that org-mode escapes the backslashes and braces for the latex export. So the latex interpreter sees only $\backslash$href instead of the \href command.)

and

#+email: mailto:bla@comp.org

but after exporting the org file to pdf-latex I'm just getting the complete line after #+email as text in the footnote.

Example of a failed attempt:

Answer 1

This seems kind of grungy but it works:

#+latex_class: report
#+options: author:nil  email:nil
#+latex_header: \author{Some user \thanks{\href{mailto:bla@comp.org}{bla@comp.org}}}

Rest of your stuff here.