Notes cannot be read by other e-mail services?

19 Feb 2009 7:44 PM

Jakobkraft

I just tried emailing a note to someone and when they tried to open it, they got a message "This attachment is a MAPI 1.0 embedded message and is not supported by this mail system."

What exactly is the point of having a Notes feature when they cannot be emailed to anyone that doesn't have Outlook?
I was using another PIM - EssentialPIM - which also had a Notes feature and which had no problem emailing Notes that opened in other email apps.

Why can't Outlook do this? -- Jakobkraft

19 Feb 2009 11:35 PM

VanguardLH

Jakobkraft wrote:

> I just tried emailing a note to someone and when they tried to open it,
> they got a message "This attachment is a MAPI 1.0 embedded message and
> is not supported by this mail system."

So what's so hard about copy-n-paste?

> What exactly is the point of having a Notes feature when they cannot be
> emailed to anyone that doesn't have Outlook?

What's the point of writing a Word .doc file if not everyone is
guaranteed to have a viewer for that proprietary document format?
What's the point of creating a database that only a particular database
program can read? What's the point of generating CAD drawings that not
everyone has a viewer to look at them? What's the point of attaching a
..pdf file to an e-mail if there is no guarantee that the recipient has a
PDF viewer app? It's up to you to provide a format that is likely
usable to the recipient. There are thousands of proprietary and open
file formats of which some viewer is required by a recipient if they
want to look at the contents of those files. If you're going to send
proprietary formatted files to someone, they'll need an appropriate
viewer for it.

> I was using another PIM - EssentialPIM - which also had a Notes feature
> and which had no problem emailing Notes that opened in other email
> apps.

Pretty simple to send text in an e-mail. So copy-n-paste and you, too,
can send just simple text.

> Why can't Outlook do this?

Because Outlook was designed to be an enterprise-level e-mail client
used for collaboration within a corporate environment - not for specific
use as a personal e-mail client. That you happen to use Outlook as a
personal e-mail program doesn't mean that is what it was designed for.

20 Feb 2009 4:38 AM

Diane Poremsky [MVP]

use Attach item, as text.

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> I just tried emailing a note to someone and when they tried to open it,
> they got a message "This attachment is a MAPI 1.0 embedded message and
> is not supported by this mail system."
>
> What exactly is the point of having a Notes feature when they cannot be
> emailed to anyone that doesn't have Outlook?
> I was using another PIM - EssentialPIM - which also had a Notes feature
> and which had no problem emailing Notes that opened in other email
> apps.
>
> Why can't Outlook do this?
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> Jakobkraft