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Acrobat form submit automatically bypassing Outlook?

Jul 17, 2012 8:40 AM

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We are using Acrobat 9 Professional, Office Standard 2007, Windows XP and some PC's have Windows 7

 

We created a fillable Acrobat form with a submit buttom. Everything is working as expected - thank goodness. We are able to complete the form, the submit button then runs a java script that creates an Outlook email, populates the email header To field, subject, text in the body of the message and adds the completed PDF as an attachment.

 

Now we are interested in eliminating the last step: Send the Outlook email. Anyway to get Outlook to automatically send the email without input from the end user?

 

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions.

 

Allison

572 Views   2 Replies   Latest reply: Dave Merchant, Jul 17, 2012 10:20 AM
 
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  • Test Screen Name
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    1. Test Screen Name,
    Jul 17, 2012 9:52 AM   in reply to Kabrice
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    That would be considered a huge security hole, and would be fixed rapidly: sending an email without asking would be a great way to harvest email addresses for spammers.

     

    In fact, 'submitting' my email isn't really viable, and this is why you don't see it used. Submission should be to a program on a web server, just like every web site does. A web programmer is needed to create this script, so it is a much more complex process than we'd all like it to be. Thank the spammers for that.

     
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    2. Dave Merchant,
    Jul 17, 2012 10:20 AM   in reply to Test Screen Name
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    With the barest spattering of PHP it's not difficult at all - see my segment in AUCTV:

     

    http://tv.adobe.com/watch/acrobat-community-tv/working-with-form-data/

     

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    Submission should be to a program on a web server, just like every web site does. A web programmer is needed to create this script, so it is a much more complex process than we'd all like it to be. Thank the spammers for that.

     
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