Newbie Q: "Submit by Email" - How do you send entire form?

Question

I've created a nice form and now would like to use the "Submit by Email" button. But from what I gather it just sends some data and not the whole form. So this begs this question... How does one send the whole form?
Also in my preliminary testing of the form, when I click on this button it gives me the error message: "An error occurred while sending mail." That tells me squat.
Anyway I'm not looking to do perform alot of coding here, I just want to use this feature as it suggests. Is that too much to ask?

Answer 1

1. If you want to submit the whole PDF you can choose that, but
realise that EVERYONE using this form will need to own Acrobat. This
is Adobe's marketing stategy, of course they want to sell Acrobat to
everyone. Similarly, the JavaScript method quoted isn't in the free
Reader (last time I checked).
2. E-mail is an incredibly bad way to submit forms for many, many
reasons. Just some of them are
* e-mail can get lost
* e-mail can be mistaken for spam and deleted
* e-mail can be blocked because the recipient is sent a big file that
puts them over quota
* sending e-mail depends on the user having a working e-mail client
set up on their machine. Millions of people don't, and use hotmail
instead.
* users may have multiple e-mail clients, and stuff put into the wrong
one ends up in their outbox, unsent, forever.
Submission should be to a web server. As I said, how many web sites do
you see that "submit" an e-mail? There is a reason for this. What is
an acceptable proportion of lost forms for you?
Aandi Inston