"ITEM" attachment to mail

[Guest]

From time to time I like to send contacts I have accumulated from my address
book to other friends within my group. I open a new message, click to the
right of the attachment button and select "Item" and then chose "Contacts".
From here I choose the contact I wish to attach and then send my message. My
recipients are unable to recieve my attachment. They use either Outlook
Express or have a Yahoo account and view mail as webmail. In the latter case
there is usually a textfile attached that gives a MAPI error message but not
my attachment.

Can anybody shed any light on this problem. Does my recipient also need to
use the full Outlook application or is this a general and known problem when
attaching a Contact Item.

Thanks for any help,

Ian.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You are sending them Outlook items. You need to send vCards instead. Choose File | Save As and select the vCard .vcf file format.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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

 

[Guest]

Hi Ian,
Try this way,
Open the Contacts folder.
Choose the contact you want to forward ( or more by holding down the Ctrl
button)
Click Actions on the menu bar,
Forward as vCard,
Enter the recipient address and send.
Rgrds,

 

[Guest]

Sue, Dave

Thanks very much for your replies, I wondered if "Item" was purely an
Outlook thing and so it is. vCard is clearly the way to go, thanks again,

Ian.

 

[Guest]

Hi Ian,
Thanks for your feedback.
Your rating of this post will be appreciated.
Rgrds,

 

[Guest]

Just one last thought, is it possible to run Outlook Express and Outlook on
the same machine. I appreciate that both applications will be collecting
incoming e-mails separately but this can be overcome by leaving a copy on the
server in the options of Outlook.

Thanks,
Ian.

 

[Guest]

Hi,
You can run both, but if both Programs are open, the incoming mail will
go to the one which is set as default Mail-program. If only one of them is
open the
incoming mail will be received there.
Rgrds,