InfoPath Dev

I have an email submit data connection to send just the active view but when I receive the email the fields are all scattered and the formatting is completely out of whack. Is there a reason for this? Is there anything I could do to prevent this from happening?

Emails sent by InfoPath are notoriously ugly. We recently discussed it here: http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/t/18511.aspx

One option is this: InfoPath allows you to create sections. Create one section where the user "fills out" the form. Create a second section which you can design, as desired, as your "email section". Then hide/display these sections as necessary to send the email. You can hide the "fill out" section and show only the "email section" in your email, so you can manipulate the email section as desired and make it look nice. Good luck!

I've been banging my against the same issue for months and wasn't satisfied with the various work-arounds.

What finally worked for me was to change all controls to a fixed width in pixels, versus using the default 100%.  There are still slight differences I haven't addressed.  Also, I'm a novice so there may be plenty of reasons not to use this approach but in our environment it works fine.