3 years and the 'submit by e-mail' problem still persists - Our company uses OpenText FirstClass as the mail system. I have LiveCycle 8 and submit buttons work perfectly through Outlook. However this is not a viable option. Would be nice if Adobe could make this work with other mail clients. Any solutions???

I had a similar problem and finally realized that it had something to do with having 2 Outlook profiles loaded on my computer.  Even though I was logged into my personal email profile, the file was being stored in the second profile’s outbox.  As soon as I logged into the alternate profile, the form was sent. 

I was having the same problem.  The email wouildn't submit from Reader.  From another forum I discovered the following.  "If you are trying to submit the entire PDF and not just the data, then the form has to be rights enabled for save before it will work on Reader.  Look under the Advanced menu on Acrobat Professional."  I just tried it and it works.

Thank you very much! I could not have figured this out without your help! Truly appreciate you sharing this!

Have you managed to get this one sorted?  If not, can you explain what problems you are experiencing as there are several topics on this page.  Are you trying to return the data along with the pdf or are you tring to send it as xml?  or is it that you just cant get the reader to recognise notes as your email client?

Quite frankly, Patrick, I gave up.  Nobody seemed to have an answer, and I don't

even remember all the circumstances.  You'll note that post is over a year old. 

I stopped using LiveCycle entirely.

Hi

I had the similar issues with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 so I found the following and problem gone.....

1. Modify the underlying XML for the "Email Submit":  In LiveCycle designer with the form displayed, select the "Email Submit" button on your form.  Use the "View > XML Source" menu item to display the XML source code for the form.  The first line  of the "Field" tag for this button should be selected and visible in the window.  If you look down the XML tags inside the field you'll see an "event" tag that contains a "submit" action tag.  This is what needs to be modified.  Everything about the submit is controlled from here.  To change the submission format, change the "format" property to "PDF", so the "submit" tag should now look like this:
   
   <submit format="pdf" textEncoding="UTF-8" target="mailto:">
    
2. Use a regular form button:   Place a regular form button on your form .  Look on the Object Window for the button.  On the Field tag, towards the bottom will be a set of "Control Type" radio buttons.  Select the "submit" option.  There should now be a "submit" tab in the Object window.  Switch to the tab and on the "Submit As" pulldown select PDF.
    
3. Use a JavaScript: This is the most flexible method.  With a script you can dynamically control every aspect of the data submission.  See these articles at the Acrobat Users web site.
   
   http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/dynamically-setting-submit-e-mai l-address
   
   http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/submitting_data

George, I'm having problems too and about to post on the forum.

However I can get my form returned as a filled out pdf (but only from certain recipients, depending on their email client it seems).

When you create a new button, double click on the button and go to the actions tab, choose 'submit a form' from the popup and click 'add' (I know you've done all this already) .

Obviously enter the url (mailto:xxx) but check the "PDF the complete document" instead of the default "FDF include". Click OK.

That should see your form returned as a pdf document and not as data.

It just seems ridiculous to me that only certain recipients using certain email clients, can return the form!

hugh