Submitting form by email

Hi,
I have created a form and sent it to a customer to test it before I distribute it to all my customers. He filled in the form and clicked submit by email. It opened his Microsoft Outlook and populating the email with the form as planned, but when he click send the email wouldnt send. He kept clicking and clicking and clicking and it eventually went.
Is this normal or is there something I am doing wrong?
Cheers

I would try with few other customers. I have never seen such behavior. It may be just local to one machine. Once the email gets composed the form is nothing to do with the composed email.

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