Encoding your email address to hexadecimal may prevent some less sophisticated crawlers from capturing your email address.
mailto: -> mailto:
abc@gmail.com -> abc@gmail.com
Then instead of:
<a href="mailto:abc@gmail.com">abc@gmail.com</a>
Use this:
<a href="mailto:abc@gmail.com"> abc@gmail.com</a>
Or this ("mailto:" also encoded):
<a href="mailto:abc@gmail.com"> abc@gmail.com</a>