how to send PDF as attachment without the annoying dialogue box? Like in the good old days?

You can use this free tool I created exactly for this purpose:

http://try67.blogspot.com/2018/10/acrobat-reader-2019-quick-file-send.html

Hi @schmizz ,

In the old JavaScript™ for Acrobat® API Reference - "Doc methods", starting on page 297, there is a perfect example of "this.mailDoc;" method  to suppress the "compose-new-message window" (or the stupid dialog box as you call it) when the GUI element is set to (false) .

You need to employ a JavaScript script, which you can incorporate as a Mouse Up event executed from a button object in your PDF form.

Here's the example:

//function this.mailDoc() method set to false to send an email with the PDF file attachment silently//

this.mailDoc({


// set to false to get rid of stupid dialog box//

bUI: false,


//to intended recipient//

cTo: "justMyself@heresay.net",


//copy to another recipient//

cCC: "Me.Myself.and.Me.Again@justBecause.org",


//Your message subject line//

cSubject: "how to send PDF as attachment without the annoying dialogue box? Like in the good old days?",


//Your message body goes here// 

cMsg:"Dear Adobe,\r\rPleeeease tell me How to get rid of this stupid dialogue box?\r\rI need to send so many PDFs as attachment every day. \r\rI don't want to click this popup window away everytime. \r\rUsed to work without in earlier versions of Acrobat. Any help is very appreciated...\r\rSincerely,\r\r\rschmizz ''The Greatest!''"
});

The script also worked when I launched the same PDF in  Microsoft Edge (Chromium) web browser in Internet Explorer 11 Mode; but it may work with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox depending on how your security restrictions are set.

The first time you send the file, the dialog window shown below will come up only one time to select the desired email client or webmail service.

Make sure to tick the checkbox "Remember my choice" after you've entered your email recipient address.

The next slide is just to show that another window will open if you have not configured an email account with your default webmail service (managed entirely by Microsoft Windows, not Adobe Acrobat)

After you complete these steps, every time you launch the action directly from that PDF in Acrobat it will email itself silently with the entire document attached. Plus, hardcoding the script like shown in my example above avoids having to also open the email client dialog window to fill in the subject and message body protions of the email..

NOTE: For a better experience, also make sure that  before you send the file take some time ahead to verify that your  Spam filter won't block the message and the attachment.

And here is the final result:

As you can see in the slide below,  it was intercepted by the Spam filter

Hi @schmizz 

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble.

Please go through the help page https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/PrefRef/Windows/index.html and see if that works for you.

Regards

Amal