Submit form by email: changed behaviour in v10?

I have a networked pdf form that staff complete and submit as an fdf file. On submission the users (with MS Outlook 2003) have seen the form data file appear in an email with pre-populated address, and can add a message and data to support the form.
I recently updated to Acrobat Pro v10 and just made som minor changes to the form. There were no changes to the Submit button (which hasn't changed in terms of its dialog options anyway), but the form did of course have to be re-enabled with Reader rights after modification. On submission. users (with Reader v8 or 9) now receive a message asking which email application they use (Desktop or web) and having selected Desktop receive an information message that the email will be sent automatically if Outlook is configured to auto send. Anyone know what has changed and how I can 'turn it off', as I don't think I can interfere with everyone's Outlook settings. [At the moment we are getting multiple copies of forms, as folk keep hitting Submit and see nothing in their email]

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Hi John,
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You create a form using the wizard, with prominent buttons to print and email the completed form as an attachment.
When the recipient has completed the form and used the button to submit/return it by email the attachment is not a modified/completed PDF but an XML file.
Some people may want an XML file because they are handling numerous returns for input to a data table. I don't. I expect the default for this feature to be a completed PDF. But this does not appear to be an option.
I have looked in vain for some way to select a Property 'Submit As' which offers the PDF option.
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Rhonda,
You'll have to forgive my ignorance, but I am unfamiliar with the Web Premium CS3 tool of which you speak. Reader Extensions is a feature that can be added to the LiveCycle ES installation at a give location. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe you need LiveCycle ES in order to reader extend PDF forms.
Any forms that are developed in designer, no matter how sophisticated they may be (dynamic in nature, with all kinds of business logic goodness built in, and buttons to do everything from print to submit via email), will just view as a static PDF with the free reader tool (ver 6.0, 7.2, 8.0, etc...). Reader extending a PDF file is an extra step that is done after the form has been completed (completion of development). LiveCycle ES allows for a user to perform many of the functions that Acrobat allows (filling in of forms, and submitting them) with just the free Reader client being loaded on the end users machine. Of course the form must be filled in through the LiveCycle workspace tool, and would appear to be a static PDF file if the form was downloaded and viewed with Reader outside of the workspace tool. Again, the exception to this being if the PDF has been Reader Extended.

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we have recently acquired Reader Extensions with the main aim of allowing submission of forms by citizens online without the form actually asking the user for an email client on the PC.
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Usually the PDF submit by email button when used in Reader will ask whether they want to send it via an email client or save it to use with webmail e.g. Hotmail. The first selection will automatically open the default client on the computer (Outlook, Windows Mail etc) and launch a new message automatically populated with the email address to send to, subject and PDF attachment, as specified by the form author, ready for the user to press send. The webmail option allows the user to just save the PDF form on the desktop and manually log into their webmail account, create a new message, enter the email address to send to and attach the PDF previously saved.
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Yes, that is correct.
I did not manually add this button, so I am assuming it was somehow automatically created.
It worked great up until now that I need to change the "To:" email address.
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I have a standard Acrobat form here that I need about 20 of my salespeople to use to send to their new prospective customers, have the customers fill it out, and return the completed form to their respective salesperson.
I don't want to allow my salespeople or their customers to be able to save local copies of the form because it will include personal information about the customer. If customers were to save their completed forms and email them to our salespeople, I worry that the salespeople will accidentally send out one of those completed forms to a new customer thinking that it is a clean/unfilled version of the form (and not realizing that it includes sensitive information about another customer!)
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