''send page'' as e-mail not working


About a month ago, the IE feature ''send page'' as an e-mail stopped
working. Over the years I've used that feature DAILY to send articles
to friends with my notes. I do NOT want to send the page as an
''attachment'' or send only a URL. I want to send the entire page as an

e-mail as I've always done for years now. There's no reason I shouldn't

be able to.


But, starting about a month ago, suddenly Outlook will only let me send

as an attachment and even Outlook Express will only let me send as a
URL. (I tried using OE just to see if it would work.) On my company
computer this feature still works fine, but on my home computer it's
suddenly invalid.


The error message I get is "the current document can not be sent as
mail. Would you like to send a short cut instead? (Outlook Express) or
sometimes in Outlook the e-mail message opens up as empty but the page
is already made into an attachment. I do not want this! I want the page

INSIDE the e-mail message as it always has been.


I use Windows XP Pro, IE 6, Outlook 2003, and OE 6, using a computer I
built myself almost a year ago. SOMETHING has changed. I had downloaded

the usual Windows and Office patches and updates around that time, so I

suspect something Microsoft slipped in my computer has now broken that
IE feature. I did a system restore back to the earliest date I could
but to no avail.


Anyone else encounter this or have any ideas? I'm fairly knowledgeable
about computers and software -- I build my own computers and have done
so for friends too. But, this one stumps me. I saw one reference to
someone else having this problem in the news groups, but the suggestion

was to try disabling firewall and anti-virus. I did that temporarily,
but problem still persisted. I do think it has something to do with a
mis-guided security update or patch.


I am willing to edit the registry if I have to and I love that feature
so much I'm thinking about reformatting my hard drive if I have to and
starting over.


I just want this feature to work again. Thanks.

Asked/Answered in both OE6 and OL General newsgroups. If you must make
identical posts to multiple newsgroups, please cross-post one (1) message to
all of them. Thank you.

Most-likely, short answer: Windows/OL/OE security enhancements are
disallowing the action. Use MailTo_URL add-in instead:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/gall...dex.htm#mailto
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

chazzmatt@gmail.com wrote:
> ''send page'' as e-mail not working
>
>
> About a month ago, the IE feature ''send page'' as an e-mail stopped
> working. Over the years I've used that feature DAILY to send articles
> to friends with my notes. I do NOT want to send the page as an
> ''attachment'' or send only a URL. I want to send the entire page as an
>
> e-mail as I've always done for years now. There's no reason I shouldn't
>
> be able to.
>
>
> But, starting about a month ago, suddenly Outlook will only let me send
>
> as an attachment and even Outlook Express will only let me send as a
> URL. (I tried using OE just to see if it would work.) On my company
> computer this feature still works fine, but on my home computer it's
> suddenly invalid.
>
>
> The error message I get is "the current document can not be sent as
> mail. Would you like to send a short cut instead? (Outlook Express) or
> sometimes in Outlook the e-mail message opens up as empty but the page
> is already made into an attachment. I do not want this! I want the page
>
> INSIDE the e-mail message as it always has been.
>
>
> I use Windows XP Pro, IE 6, Outlook 2003, and OE 6, using a computer I
> built myself almost a year ago. SOMETHING has changed. I had downloaded
>
> the usual Windows and Office patches and updates around that time, so I
>
> suspect something Microsoft slipped in my computer has now broken that
> IE feature. I did a system restore back to the earliest date I could
> but to no avail.
>
>
> Anyone else encounter this or have any ideas? I'm fairly knowledgeable
> about computers and software -- I build my own computers and have done
> so for friends too. But, this one stumps me. I saw one reference to
> someone else having this problem in the news groups, but the suggestion
>
> was to try disabling firewall and anti-virus. I did that temporarily,
> but problem still persisted. I do think it has something to do with a
> mis-guided security update or patch.
>
>
> I am willing to edit the registry if I have to and I love that feature
> so much I'm thinking about reformatting my hard drive if I have to and
> starting over.
>
>
> I just want this feature to work again. Thanks.

Your reason is probably correct -- as that was my first guess. But
your solution does not work. the "mail to URL" add it is exactly what
I do NOT want. it only sends the URL which is the problem -- that is
what is happening now. I want to send the page INSIDE the e-mail as a
message that I can annotate, not as an attachment (OUtlookr) or as a
URL (Outlook Express).

as for cross posting, I found a group I thought would fit the the
problem (outlook group). then I realized a couple of others might also
have some expertise and be affected by the problem (IE6 abd Outlook
Express), but I had to search for them. I posted as I found them.

I solved the problem by reinstalling windows xp as an "upgrade" even
though it was exactly the same version of windows. reinstalling like
that suddenly revertts that feature back to normal. I will be very
careful of reinstalling any security enhancements.