Email inside \author{} not producing clickable email with \maketitle

Question

Using \href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]} I am able to render my email as a clickable text. Is there a way to add email as a part of \author{} field, and have \maketitle generate a link that will call an email client when clicked? I am using KOMA-Script. MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,titlepage=true]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[margin=2cm,footskip=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{mathtools,amssymb}
\setlength{\jot}{10pt}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
  pdfauthor={x},
  pdftitle={x},
  colorlinks=false,
  urlbordercolor={0.9 0.5 0.1},
  pdfborderstyle={/S/D/W 1}
}

\begin{document}
\titlehead{\centering x\\y\\z}
\subject{my subject}
\title{my title}
\author{author1\\[email protected]}
\date{2017}
\maketitle
\end{document}

Also, any comments on the preamble regarding (improper) use of packages are welcome. Thanks!

Answer 1

As gernot and samcarter suggested \author{author1\\ \href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]}} solves the issue. Thank you!

Answer 2

Simpler and more powerful answer is to \usepackage{url} and then just code \author{Name, \url{[email protected]}}.

Re packages: do NOT use geometry to typeset wide lines of body text. It is well established that people have trouble comprehending wide lines of text. The practical maximum is about 14cm, as coded in the standard LaTeX. If you want your work understood, then do NOT typeset with body text wider than 14cm.

Conversely, if you are writing a report with embarrassing information in it than you want to obfuscate, then use body text as wide as you can.