Add a button to send a pdf form

Hi, I created a PDF via indesign and edited in Acrobat 9, a series of form fields. I wanted to add a button 'Submit' to this form so that once the end user has completed this form can be sent and attached to an e-mail address. I met many ways to be able to do this and they that seem to all work fine on my home computer that is currently running Acrobat 8, but when I use my work computer that runs Acrobat 9 and try clicking on the "Submit" button, I created that is bound to a required e-mail address , he invites me to select a customer to e-mail of each being a desktop application or Internet e-mail. Once I picked "Desktop email Application" and clicked 'OK' Acrobat then opens with an error message reading "an error has occurred. in trying to create a mail document  Acrobat is unable to respond to your request. »

I seem to find it very strange that I have these exact same steps on my computer at home and everything seems to work properly.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

see you soon

Paul

On the Mac, the only choice for e-mail Clients are Entourage (now replaced by Outlook that Adobe doesn't support and don't want to date) and Apple Mail.

Products like SeaMonkey, Thunderbird and mailbox don't are not supported. As with Apple, Adobe is committed to a path to make life miserable for the people either want to use something else, or have no choice. Products at base of Mozilla use the same mbox even set up as Outlook for PC, Mac, and Apple Mail.  At the time of Acrobat OS9 support IE Mac, Netscape, Eudora, Mailsmith even.

If you must use a brand of submitt button, of course, you have installed Apple Mail.

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