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Mail submit with out a Mail Client

DominicanPete
Registered: Jan 4 2008
Posts: 41

I've posted this before, but since this is 'LiveCycle' month and there are some Adobe people checking in here, I thought that I would try one more time.
Using the 'Email Submit' button requires that there be a mail client installed on the system from which the form is invoked. We are embedding our LiveCycle form into a web page, and we have no guarantee that there will be a mail client on the system where the user is working. Is there a way to pass the form directly to a mail server to be sent as an attachment to an email to an address that I already have?

A scenario might help:
The form in question is an award nomination form in a university environment. The users log into the website, navigate to the award nomination forms page, and select the form for a particular award. This form is then opened in the web browser. The user then enters the information requested. This form is ALWAYS mailed directly to the Dean of Students office. I want to bundle the form as an attachement to an email, pre-addressed to the Deans office, and submit this to our mail server.

Any thoughts or ideas are greatly appreciated!

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
No, submitting to an email server requires implementing the SMTP protocal, which Acrobat does not do. However, you could submit to a server script that does implement SMTP and have it send the email.

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