Tino Rachui - Sun Germany - Development - Software Engineer schrieb:
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I think is anyhow naturally and ligitimate that there are
differentiators between OOo and StarOffice. Immediately blame Sun and
call this "SUN blocks" is an offense in my opinion. The interfaces for
implementing a mail service for email merge are open and not closed
source so everybody is allowed and encouraged to implement such a
service. Fell free to take over the responsibility to do it for OOo and
the community (see my reply to Roderick for more information or just ask
me for details).
I acknowledge that the description on the second page of the mail merge
wizard is a little bit misleading but this is rather a bug.
Kind regards,
Tino
Hi Tino,
naturally it is legitim for selling reasons to implement the
com.sun.star.Mail.MailserviceProvider - Service only for StarOffice.
But *that* is the reason, why it not works and not the JavaMail.
Can you take a look at the specs-doc please (toc 4.2), the programmers
have to follow:
"1.For sending out merged document *OpenOffice.org* uses the Java Mail
API [1]. The JavaMail API provides a platform-independent and
protocol-independent framework to build mail and messaging applications.
The JavaMail API is implemented as a Java platform optional package and
is also available as part of the Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition.
Due to the fact that OpenOffice.org is not bundled by default with Java
or Java Enterprise Edition features, users have to assure that Java is
install and the Java Mail API is also available. This belongs not to
StarOffice. StarOffice will provide the needed APIs and Java, so that a
working system is assured for this product."
This makes the users believe, that it would work, if JavaMail is
installed and configured.
On the German list we were also told that because of license reasons
this feature was not implemented into OpenOffice (contact Elizabeth
about that).
That's not correct and frustrating.
You are the first one who made a statement about the commercial
background. Thanks for clearing it. And with a correct statement at the
right time SUN can avoid offenses (issue 11244 is not a new one).
Regards
Peter
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