Sending email within Word 2003

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"Outsider" posted the following on 10/14/05 ...

I have come across this problem when i am working in Microsoft Word. I have
been trying to email a document using the Send To > Mail Recipient as
Attachment option when working with a word doc. I needed to save my document
because i had to work on something else, so i go click SAVE. I figured that
it would end up in the DRAFT folder but somehow it ended up in my INBOX. Does
anyone know why it is doing this and if there is a way to change the location?

.... You then responded with the following a day later. ..
It's because that kind of send uses a mechanism called Simple MAPI that
knows only about the Inbox and Outbox, not about your other folders. (It
doesn't event know that you're using Outlook.) Since it doesn't know about
your other folders, the Inbox is the only place it can store a draft.

..... My question to you or someone I guess is ...
I have a user that was inquiring about this exact issue and saw this post.
So I take it there is no way around this at all huh? Microsoft hasn't fixed
anything with this at all and there is nothing we or Microsoft can do to save
this into the drafts instead of the Inbox? Thanks. Jim

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There's nothing to fix. Word simply is using a method of creating an email message that knows nothing about the Drafts folder. It knows only about Inbox and Outbox.

If you want Word to behave differently, you could write a Word macro that saves the document, creates a new Outlook message, attaches the document, and displays the message, but every time I've suggested a VBA solution in this forum this week. If you want to go that route, give us some idea of your previous VBA experience so that we know whether to start at square one. I hestiate to suggest it in this forum, because too many people just copy and paste code they don't even begin to understand and then they get into trouble.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your quick response, answers, and macro suggestion. I think it
best to keep things as designed and tell the user it saves to the inbox and
they can drag it to drafts if need be or leave it there. Could you just
explain a little more why it does that and why real briefly for me? I have
really no knowledge of simple mapi. Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Simple MAPI is, as the name implies, simple and designed to work with whatever mail program is installed on the user's machine. The minimum for an email client is that it have an Inbox and an Outbox. That's all that Simple MAPI works with. It neither knows nor cares what the actual mail client is or what its capabilities might be.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much for the help and answers Sue.