Comments on: email mailmerge

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:21:43 +0000

Would it be a big effort to implement a python script for SMTP generally?
The com.sun.star.mail.MailServiceProvider isn’t really supported in StarBasic, see
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=42500

Peter

By: caolan

caolan — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:43:48 +0000

Please don’t submit bugreports to the comment area Please submit them to qa.openoffice.org, feel free to cc cmc@openoffice.org (me also) on those reports though

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:32:50 +0000

I have tried mailmerge.py in OOo v2 and there is a bug when emailing to merge in the Biblio database names. If the Author field contains an extended charset character, it generates an error if you choose Plain Text as the message format. See below:
exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xf6′ in position 33: ordinal not in range(128), traceback follows
File “”, line 183, in sendMailMessage
File “C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\python-core-2.3.4\lib\email\Message.py”, line 130, in as_string
g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
File “C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\python-core-2.3.4\lib\email\Generator.py”, line 102, in flatten
self._write(msg)
File “C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\python-core-2.3.4\lib\email\Generator.py”, line 130, in _write
self._dispatch(msg)
File “C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\python-core-2.3.4\lib\email\Generator.py”, line 156, in _dispatch
meth(msg)
File “C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program\python-core-2.3.4\lib\email\Generator.py”, line 202, in _handle_text
self._fp.write(payload)

Funny – it doesn’t look as if it is using your code so the bug might have nothing to do with you…

By: Excidium

Excidium — Wed, 31 May 2006 11:27:57 +0000

Marc. Your’re looking in the wrong folder. There is more than one copy of that file in, at least on in the open office folder and one (windows) in the “C:\Documents and Settings\My Username\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Writer.xcu” folder.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:08:34 +0000

I attempted to follow the instructions, but I don’t seem to have the “EMailSupported” property in my Writer.xcu. Can anyone tell me what node to hang it off of? (or better yet, post an email merge-functional Writer.xcu?)

Thanks!

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:28:59 +0000

I don’t seem to have the “EMailSupported” property in my Writer.xcu. Can anyone tell me what node to hang it off of?

Thanks!

By: Nam Vo

Nam Vo — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:47:35 +0000

i installed mailmerge follow the instruction http://internet.cybermesa.com/~aaron_w/OOo_email_merge/OOo_email_merge.html . It works fine when execute mailmerge to email in OpenOffice 2.0. But When i use API for execute mailmerge in VB.NET program. It doesn’t work correctly, at the first time, when i do that, i work fine, but later it sometimes sends email but it almost doesn’t delivers to the correct email address, although the execute method of mailmerge return True.

Could someone figure out how to fix that.

Thank you very much.

namvo

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:53:53 +0000

I got this to work also using aaron_w’s notes and comments; however, it appears to fail when there is a badly formed smtp address in the addresses table. It seems to then be impossible to resume the sending. I can provide the details to someone if they would be helpful in making a further fix.

By: John C

John C — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:15:19 +0000

Do you still need to have JavaMail installed for this to work? I have followed Aaron W’s doc, but no luck.

John

By: aaron w

aaron w — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:37:30 +0000

do these comments work? I can’t get mine to show -