I have a button embedded in a movie clip and need to to send to an email address... for some reason it does not work...

Actionscript Code:
var emailLink:URLRequest = new URLRequest("mailto:[email protected]");

this.add_MC.youradd_but.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,emailClick);

function emailClick(event:MouseEvent):void 
{
    navigateToURL(emailLink);
}

what am i doing wrong?

Ive tired

Actionscript Code:
add_MC.youradd_but.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,emailClick);

also.