Submitting Forms without email programs

Hi,
I was wondering if there was any way to submit the pdf forms without having to rely on an email program such Outlook. Is there any way a code can be written to be able to submit forms where they don't have to be attached to the email prior to be sent? Sort of like forms that we fill online.
Thank you!!!!!!!

Yes, in this case Acrobat.com is the web server that I talked about. Your client would need to set up an account there and distribute the form using their own licensed copy of Acrobat.
The downside to using Acrobat.com is troubleshooting when things go wrong on the server end, which I've experienced a number of times. Since it is controlled by Adobe, there's very little you can do when things don't work as expected.
I'll try to find some other resources to direct you to for other approaches.

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>Can this be done using a .pdf?
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which runs on a web server. You are limited only by what the
programmer has made the script do. Don't be under any impression that
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an e-mail it's because there is a script on a web server that a web
programmer wrote to make it happen.
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I prefer to think of it as a handy tool for testing, but nothing
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>Why do users have to go through the hassle of having their email client ...
They don't. Did you know that you can "submit" an HTML form to e-mail?
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expects an HTML form to submit to a web script, but for some reason
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E-Mail:    [email protected]
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Tax:        3.47
Shipping:        8.00
Total:        88.47
=======================================================
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Some of my users are unable to submit form data. The forms are set up to be submitted via email and only a few of the users are effected. They have installed the latest versions of both Acrobat and Adobe Reader.
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I have used the following code to achieve this. We are getting message saying 'Mail request has created' when executed, but the mail is not sent.
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Hi,
For sending smartform output into mail you first have to generate spool request and convert it into PDF and then
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Edited by: Matt on Jan 29, 2010 8:25 AM - removed code, instead point to wiki that Mansi authored.

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