Difficulty in getting PDF form to submit to central mailbox

I am an average user of Adobe Acrobat
Pro 9.
I have created a form both using Acrobat Pro and LiveCycle that is to be used at work for arranging translation requests. the form I created is made up of a variety of different fields: text; checkboxes; dropdown menu; calendar time etc.
At the bottom of the form, I have the submit button where it should do a mailto:emailaddress function with the pdf attached. I can get the form to work on my computer, but my colleagues cannot send the form. My colleagues have a variety of versions of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader.
We are intending to store the form on our SharePoint site so that our entire team can access it.
Please Help!

You need to Reader-enable the form: Advanced > Exten Features in Adobe Reader For it to work with Reader.

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