On 3 May 2010 at 10:51, Mike Scott wrote: > > (R. E.) Bruce Martin wrote: > > Dear Sir: > > > > Usually Oo uses your default email client to access or send email. > > > > If, as I do, you have multiple email clients, in Win XP you can change your > > default email back and forth if you need. > > > > Hence your SMTP server and the associated parameters, (such as SSL or TLS, > > etc.) are handled by the email clinent. > > > > I have not tested this in Linux yet, but I would be a bit surprised if it > > didn't pick up Thunderbird without too much trouble, depending on the distro > > you are using. > > Linux is clearly slightly different from XP. As I posted earlier, OOo3.1 > on XP does not have the pick-my-email-client option. Linux has this > though (at least, for OOo 2.4 on Ubuntu 8.04), buried as someone else > pointed out, under Tools|Options. And it seems to work as expected, at > least with thunderbird. > > > CC unsub'd OP. To the OP - it will always help if you specify what > program version and OS you are using, as well as details of what you did > and saw as a result. "having trouble" could cover anything just about! > > > > -- > Mike Scott mike <at> <removeme>.scottsonline.org.uk > Harlow Essex England > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
There are two different situations for emailing from OOo. 1) For emailing from the Mail Merge program, you need to set it up using Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Writer > Mail Merge Email. This needs Name, E-mail Address and details of the outgoing SMTP server (mine is smtp.freeserve.net, for instance). You should get SMTP server details from your ISP. If you don't use an ISP as such (for instance, if you use mobile broadband), you will find instructions for setting up GMail's SMTP at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287 This set up is the same for both Windows XP and Linux versions of OOo 2) For using File > Send > Document as Email/Email as... options, the rules are different for Windows XP and Linux. In Windows XP, OOo finds out what to do from your Windows settings (Control Panel > Internet Options > Programs tab > E-mail). This is a problem if you only use Gmail web mail as you will not see it in the drop-down list of email clients, however you can configure an email client on your Windows XP machine to use GMail's SMTP (see link above). In Linux you configure OOo for send > Document as Email/Email as... options by using Tools > Options > Internet > Email and specifying your E-mail program. On my EEEPC running Ubuntu, this program is set by default to sensible-ooomua (which sends mail using Evolution). As for XP, there is probably nothing you can do for web mail. You have to configure an email client on your machine to send using GMails SMTP. Hope this all helps. By the way, someone mentioned Pegasus mail. This is a free Windows mailer (which I happen to use). The OOo Send > Document as Email/Email as... options sort of work with Pegasus, but you must first enable the Pegasus MAPI program. Then it does work but you always seem to have to crash out of OOo. Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
