https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154487
Bug ID: 154487
Summary: Enhancement Request: Allow LibreOffice Mail Merge to
use default e-mail client
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.0 all versions
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
This is a feature request. LibreOffice should be able to compose e-mail
messages to mail merge, but it is NOT the responsibility of LibreOffice to
actually send the messages. Rather, they should be handed off to a proper
e-mail client such as Microsoft Outlook (or Mozilla Thunderbird).
Steps to Reproduce:
If it were possible to attach screenshots, I would do so here.
1.Start a mail merge to ANY data source, and it does not matter if it is
Letters or E-mail Messages.
2. On the Mail Merge toolbar, click "E-mail Merged Documents." It's the button
with an envelope positioned over two pieces of paper, the second such instance
of said icon in the toolbar.
3. Click "Send Document."
Actual Results:
I get asked for SMTP credentials.
Expected Results:
LibreOffice should offer me the option to open Microsoft Outlook. The messages
would then appear in my Outbox.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
My workplace suffered a ransomware attack in December 2022, and as a result, we
have banned all applications outside the Microsoft Outlook family from sending
or receiving e-mail messages, including LibreOffice.
Both LibreOffice and Microsoft Word via the PDFMaker add-on by Adobe (add-on
for Word, included with Acrobat) allow me to mail merge a document such that
the document is sent as a PDF attachment with a message that has a body.
However, the PDFMaker add-on does NOT offer me the option to CC anybody,
something from which I benefit greatly.
I trust LibreOffice developers to make changes more than I trust employees of
either Microsoft or Adobe. It's just the commitment to open-source software
that shows through everything you do.
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