send a vcard

[Darryl]

Greetings,
I use outlook 2000. When I send a vcard attachment to someone
on the internet, they receive a file that is not a vcard but appears
to be a message.

How do I properly send a vcard attachement to an internet recepient ?

thanks,
Darryl

 

[Darryl]

I am sending with Outlook 2000. The recepient is using Outlook 2000.
When I send the email, I see the vcard icon at the bottom of my email
message. When the recepient gets the email, the icon at the bottom is
a yellow envelop like the message envolope. It is no longer a vcard as
outlook doesn't recognize it as such.

-Darryl

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What steps are you following? What email client is the recipient using? What
do you mean by "appears to be a message"?

 

[Darryl]

Click New Mail message.

Type in address on the To: line.
Type in Subject.
In body, type my greeting, etc.

then click Insert. Choose Item.
In the resulting popup, in the look in pane, select contacts.
In the Items pane, select the specific contact that I want
to send. The Insert-as is set to attachment. Click OK.
Then click send.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Please provide the exact steps you are following.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Ah. You're not sending a vCard at all. You're sending an embedded Outlook
contact item. To make this work, you'll need to make sure that the message
format is rich-text and double-click the address for the recipient to make
sure that it's marked to receive rich-text format.

Or, start in your Contacts folder, pick the contact and choose Actions |
Forward as vCard to send an actual vCard text file.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Darryl]

Ah, thanks for straightening me out.
I have successfully sent a vcard using the start
in contacts folder method.

Question: Can you compose an email then
add a vcard attachment without starting in the
contacts folder ?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Only if you have already saved the vCard as a file

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers