https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154487
Michael Weghorn <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever confirmed|0 |1 Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEEDINFO --- Comment #7 from Michael Weghorn <[email protected]> --- The desired workflow is not fully clear to me yet. (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6) > We do File > Send > Email Document... via the configured email client (Tools > > Options > Internet > Email) and I think it should be done as well for mail > merge. >From reading this ticket, it's unclear to me whether that is a comparable scenario, since (e.g. for Thunderbird) that scenario opens a new window/tab in the mail client to compose an email, with the document attached. The user then still has to manually enter the recipient and send the email, i.e. nothing gets sent automatically. (In reply to Stuart Simon from comment #0) > Expected Results: > LibreOffice should offer me the option to open Microsoft Outlook. The > messages would then appear in my Outbox. Does this mean that the email should automatically be sent somehow via Outlook without requiring the user to take any extra action or do you expect that a draft email (compose window,...) shows up and the user still manually selects "Send" for each single recipient? For sending automatically: If possible at all, this would presumably require the use of some API specific to the mail client, so very specific handling depending on the email client (not sure that would fit well into LO core, maybe rather something for an extension?) For manual sending: Would you then expect this to open 100 new windows/tabs with the single emails when there are 100 recipients and the use manually chooses to send every single one of them? (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6) > Sending as bulk with all recipients in To or BCC should be one option, IIUC, the usual use case for mail merge is that the letter/email is personalized, so each person gets a different message/e-mail attachment, and as far as I understand, that would not really fit well with this suggestion: Attaching all the different personalized messages for all people would IMHO be odd, and if there's just a single (non-personalized) message that everybody should get, I tend to think that this should be possible from the email client (without using LO mail merge). At least doesn't seem to be a typical use case for mail merge to me. > the other to send every message individually, which could block the > application > for a while. s. question above wrt API vs. potentially very many windows/tabs opening in the email client and requiring manual user interaction; would be interested in a UX evaluation of that if that's the preferred option -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
