Problem submitting pdf form in Indesign CS6

I've designed a form in Indesign CS6 (trial version) and added the submit button with a mailto email address as in the tutorials etc. I have opened it in Adobe Acrobate 10 and extended the forms functionality to Adobe Reader.
When opened online and the submit button is clicked, a box opens asking which option which best describes how you send email. After selecting Outlook my email client opens with the message 'Form returned; sample_form.pdf attached. the attached file is the filled-out form. Please open it to retrieve the data'. Just above the message bar states 'this message has not been sent'.
I've also downloaded the Michael Jarott tutorial which I cannot get to send either.

Thanks for all your suggestions. Unfortunately the form still returns the 'no matches found for [email protected]' I've changed the URL field on the submit button to mailto: xxxxx@xxxx and I've also tried it with no space after the mailto:, unfortunately both these return the above error message. This is the same whatever email address I try. I'm starting to tear my hair out with this one. I've tried it on my home PC arunning Norton Internet Security and on my works PC running Avast. Same problem on both.

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Vi har ca 1000 dokument i Indesign och varje dokument ska sparas till en formulär pdf. På den pdfen finns en ruta som kund ska kunna ändra innehållet på och sen skicka till tryckeriet. Den rutan kommer att ligga på samma ställe på varje dok.
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