I have talked and blog about this since 2004. Most of the issues I found
is my lack of understanding of how email work, and how to get a real smtp
server. McMahara created something with Python (mailmerge.py) and
Staroffice re-wrote it to javamail.
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/Email_mailmerge.pdf
I even went as far as to estimate the dollar ammount to write an OOo
front-end to the mailer clases on the framework. Which range around 20,000
dls if you are smart on your hiring and fast on your UNO trainning.
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:44:02 -0500, Arvind Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Alexandro,
It is not theory, it is real. I am already using XSimpleMailMessage
using OOCalc Basic and Thunderbird and the yahoo smtp server to email
press releases to media. It works just fine -- for sending file
attachments. What I am asking for is an enhancement to send plain text
emails. In Issues Tracker, see Issue 93995 and pls vote for it if it
makes sense to you.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=93995
P.S. I can post the Basic code for how to send an email from OOBasic if
anyone wants it.
- Arvind Kumar
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">On Wed,
17 Sep 2008 01:13:01 -0500, Arvind Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recently switched from using Microsoft Excel & Outlook to OO &
Thunderbird. I have Excel macros to compose and send emails to
addresses in a spreadsheet and I have just finished porting the MS
Basic to OOBasic.
Are there any plans to support a function in the XSimpleMailMessage
interface like
XSimpleMailMessage.setBody()
This will allow OOBasic programs to create plain text emails as
opposed to emails with file attachments (via the setAttachement()
API). This is one of the gaps between the Microsoft platform and
OO/Thunderbird platform.
There are some snippets of code that theorize about using those
functions. But it really hasn't pick up since well you still need a
server like sendmail or postfix on your system.
Another option is use scripts like the following in python to send
email, not sure if it will work with the Python 2.3 that OOo includes:
http://kutuma.blogspot.com/2007/08/sending-emails-via-gmail-with-python.html
Specially the email package, smtplib seems to work fine.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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