Send to Outlook 2002 error

[falcios]

When I send any document to Outlook I get the following message:
The command line arugment is not valid. Verify the switch you are using.

I searched Microsoft's website and their solution was to:
For Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, follow
these steps: a. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
b. On the File Types tab, click URL:MailTo Protocol under the (NONE)
section, and then click Advanced.
c. Under Actions, click Open, and then click Edit.
d. If you are running Microsoft Outlook 2002, type the following text under
Application used to perform action:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1"

I verified everything is correct and I am still getting the same error. Any
suggestions on how to correct the problem?
Thanks.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I verified everything is correct

You included the quotes and spaces exactly as described?

 

[VanguardLH]

When I send any document to Outlook I get the following message:
The command line arugment is not valid. Verify the switch you are using.

I searched Microsoft's website and their solution was to:
For Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, follow
these steps: a. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
b. On the File Types tab, click URL:MailTo Protocol under the (NONE)
section, and then click Advanced.
c. Under Actions, click Open, and then click Edit.
d. If you are running Microsoft Outlook 2002, type the following text under
Application used to perform action:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1"

I verified everything is correct and I am still getting the same error. Any
suggestions on how to correct the problem?
Thanks.

Right-click on your desktop and create a shortcut. Enter just the
following on the location line:

mailto:

Name the shortcut anything you want, like Send Email. Then double-click
on that shortcut. What happens? Does Outlook open with a new-mail
editor window?

If that worked, modify the test shortcut by changing the location line
to:

mailto:[email protected];[email protected]&[email protected]?subject=Test&body=Testing

That is all on one line. Now when you double-click this shortcut, a
new-mail editor window should open and have u1 and u2 in the To field,
u3 in the Cc field, a Subject of "Test", and the body has "Testing".
Did that shortcut work?

 

[falcios]

Yes the shortcut works but when I try to send a file to outlook via sendto
option I get the error.

 

[VanguardLH]

Yes the shortcut works but when I try to send a file to outlook via sendto
option I get the error.

If you go to Internet Options -> Programs, what is selected as the
default e-mail client?

Which "sendto" object are you referring? Some email function in a
program, like Internet Explorer or Word? Or when right-clicking on a
file in Windows Explorer and using the SendTo context entry? It the
latter, that is a folder in the context menu with entries underneath it,
one of which is the .MAPImail link used to send the selected document to
whatever is currently designated as the default MAPI (email) client.

Some utilities will add their own MAPI link in the SendTo group that you
don't want. For example, the old SentTo powertoy will add entries that
duplicate the .MAPImail link already present but when you delete those
superfluous entries you might delete the wrong one. If the MAPImail
link is missing (which means the SendTo context entry is missing which
doesn't appear to be the case for you) or to reregister the drop handler
for MAPImail, read:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182378/en-us

If you look in the registry, the .MAPImail extension is defined at:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.MAPIMail

Under there is an OpenWithProgIDs subkey that mentions the classID of
the handler. Mine shows CLSID\{9E56BE60-C50F-11CF-9A2C-00A0C90A90CE} as
the handler, so go look under:

HKCR\CLSID\{9E56BE60-C50F-11CF-9A2C-00A0C90A90CE}

to find the InProcServer32 points at sendmail.dll. Well, if you read
the KB article, it mentions unregistering and reregistering that DLL.
So all I've done is verify that the .MAPImail extension is used as a
drop handler (for the file you drop to it) and uses sendmail.dll to send
the file to the default MAPI client (which you should see listed in the
Internet Options -> Programs selection).