Using Actions>Forward to send a contact mangles the attachment.

[dave]

I have Outlook 2003 attached to Exchange 2003. When I try to forward
a contact the attachment shows up at the recipient the only data that
appears is whatever happens to be in the notes field of the contact.
I have noticed no other anomalies.

All of my searches on the Internet have been fruitless. I am not even
sure how to phrase a search to find what I am looking for.

Thanks,

-Dave

 

[Peter Durkee]

When you forward a contact that way you're sending it as an msg file which
requires that the recipient also have Outlook to read it. You'd be better
off exporting the contact to a VCard file and sending that.

-Peter

 

[dave]

When you forward a contact that way you're sending it as an msg file which
requires that the recipient also have Outlook to read it. You'd be better
off exporting the contact to a VCard file and sending that.

-Peter

The contacts were sent to outlook recipients of the same version,
(though I have not tested by sending to accounts on the same server)
and despite the receiving email being Outlook on Exchange, the
contacts are still mangled. The vcard workaround is functional, but
it prevents the user from doing a simple right click and forward.
Also I am curious as to what is actually happening to the contact.