Sending Acrobat 9.0 Pro Forms through Secure E-mail Method

Question

I have build a number of forms in Adobe Acrobat 9.0. I've read all there is about Adobe Security. But after trying many, many methods, I can't seem to find a way to 1) make it work, or 2) test the method to ensure it works.
The cernerio is this....
The Acrobat .pdf forms on are a web host server. The form has an Adobe object "Email Submit" button. The button includes the email address that the form is to be sent to by email, and the subject. It also has the "Sign Submission" checked,  with the personal certificate made of the author.
A visitor to the website clicks on a hyperlink and views the Adobe .pdf form within the browser (Chrome, Firefox, MS I.E.).
The visitor fills out the form. The visitor clicks on the "Email Submit" button. A dialog displays indicating if the visitor wants to send the email by his client email program, or by a web email client program. The visitor choses and the email goes off to the recipient, which is the email address given in the  "Email Submit" button.
The email is received by the author. The author clicks on the .pdf attachment and gets a dialog box to choose a "response.pdf" file, or Cancel. The author Cancels the response dialog box and is able to view the .pdf.
What my request is:
1) I doubt I have this form setup right so that when the visitor sends the email, the email .pdf attachment is encrypted and secured (i.e. secured email).
2) Can someone provide just a simple checklist of actions to do to ensure this email .pdf attachment is encyrpted and secured so that the email is secured? (There are personal confidential items involved within the form.)
3) Can someone tell me how I can test to know when the visitor sends the email attachment, it is not secured, and vice-versa, it is secured? I need to have this confidence level.
Thanks!
Jim Morrissey

Answer 1

I'm very unfamiliar with the solution you propose, but I've researched it some now.
So I built a very simple form (Name, Address, Phone Number) within Lifecycle Designer. I placed a Button on the form. I choose the Control Type as "Submit". On the Button object's Submit tab, I enter the URL I wish to use for this test (http://www.innovationdesignco.com/innovationdesigncocom/Temp/). I set the "Submit As" to PDF, so that the entire PDF is Posted to the server.
I save the form.  I open up Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro and fill out the form. I press the submit button. I get an error: "General Error" - http://www.innovationdesignco.com/innovationdesigncocom/Temp/.
This error makes no sense to me. Can you explain what I'm doing wrong?
I've attached the simple test form.
Thank you very much!
Jim