Create a submit button on Acrobat X fillable application.

How do I put a submit button on an Acrobat X fillable application?  This application should come back to me via email once it is filled out.  Person should also be able to save the form for their files.

This video might help: http://goo.gl/TjOZZC
You might try with out the mailto in front but I believe in order for it to be sent to an e-mail address you need the mailto:
test this with a Friend. To see how it works.
As "Test Screen" recommends in a Post after mine, I don't endorse submitting to e-mail address. I'm just showing the method.
When I was Treasurer in an Electronics association. I used submit to e-mail address only I used FDF and the person using kept a Blank copy of the Form on his computer. And it worked well. But this was back before there were so many security risk involved

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