The Official Joroto Blog » pasting text sends e-mail in outlook http://www.joroto.com/blog From the people at Joroto, Inc. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:10:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pasting text sends e-mail in Outlook http://www.joroto.com/blog/2010/02/02/pasting-text-sends-e-mail-in-outlook/ http://www.joroto.com/blog/2010/02/02/pasting-text-sends-e-mail-in-outlook/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:50:40 +0000 John Boukis http://www.joroto.com/blog/?p=355 Continue reading →]]> This happened to me using TPX remoting into an IBM 3390 mainframe and MS Outlook 2000.  I was usng <ctrl-c> in the green screen session and pasting into an e-mail in Outlook 2000.  The process must have capture additional keystrokes from the TPX session.  When I selected <ctrl-p> to paste in an e-mail, the e-mail was sent.  So, how to handle this?

1) Do not put in an e-mail address until you are ready to send.

2) Copy text from the problem application(s) and try pasting in notepad first, then copying and pasting again into Outlook.

3) Try using any available built-in copy function in the problem application, in my case it was TPX.  TPX has a “COPY” function that captures pure text, versus <CTRL><C> which does more of a screen capture from TPX.

Our business has since migrated to a different e-mail client.  I am not sure but it does not seem to be sensitive to this problem.

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