Mail Recipient option missing from Send To

As per Microsoft:

"What programs are required to send or route documents in e-mail?

To send or route documents through e-mail, you need one of the following:

·      Microsoft Exchange (or other 32-bit e-mail program compatible with the Messaging Application Programming Interface [MAPI]).
·      Lotus cc:Mail (or other 16-bit e-mail program compatible with Vendor Independent Messaging [VIM]).

Note   Sending and routing documents through e-mail may not work across electronic mail gateways."

If you have a compatible e-mail program, the option should automatically appear on the File menu.

Hi blakeh1,

Have yo tried:

Right-click on menu bar, choose 'customize', Tab 'Commands', Category 'File', where you should find 'Mail Recipient'.

Now go to Menu Bar, File, Send To, and drag and drop the 'Mail Recipient' icon to the Sent To menu list.

It will be added. Now click close on 'customize ' Dialog Box.

The actions described apply for all office programs (at least I've tried it ford Word/Excel).

Hope this helps,

Calacuccia

Well Antrat was quicker, but as he has another look at your problem (and surely the first point to check), we are completing each other. However, I understand from your question, you don't have the 'Mail Recipient' icon visible under Send To.

Cheers,

Calacuccia

Calacuccia,
I did not try adding the menuitem 1rst, just jumped to the conculsion that something was wrong with the install or some file or reg key was missing. I will try adding the menu item first (however I initially reset the Menu and it still was not a choice). If that doesn't work it looks like it may be a problem with the install of the mail app.
Amfot,
This machine has Netscape installed,  is this a Mapi compliant app as far as office is concerned, or do I also need to have exchange or Outlook installed?

I tried adding the menuitem, it is dimmed and not an option to be chosen, any ideas?

>This machine has Netscape installed,  is this a Mapi compliant app as  far as office is concerned, or do I also need to have exchange or Outlook installed?

I have Netscape installed and Groupwise as mail group and everything wokrs fine. At home I have Outlook Express, no problem neither.

How can I enable this option?

Found following on MSKB (it's for Outlook Express 4.0, but the tips look quite useful for other mail programs too), however it's not directly linked to MS Office. Does this problem only occur in Office, by the way ?

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q182/3/78.ASP

Maybe worth a try ?

Looking further in the mean time

Yeah, I saw that article, but that unfortunatly did not resolve it.  any other thoughts/ideas?

Hi blakeh1,

I have no further suggestions at your problem for this moment.

Just wanted to add, I've tried to send a file by the Send To>Mail Recipient tool at work (where I have Novell Netscape with Groupwise) and it appeared not to work.

It just creates a temporary file and then the error message 'General Mail Error' comes up.

I'll try to figure out what happens.

Till Later,

Calacuccia