2009/9/18 NoOp <[email protected]> > On 09/18/2009 11:56 AM, M Henri Day wrote: > ... > > I can't seem to get the «Send» command with my Email client Swiftdove > > (2.0.0.22) to work either on OOo 3.0 or OOo-dev 3.2.0 (DEV300M59) on my > > 64-bit Jaunty setup, despite setting the Email-reader command under > «System» > > → «Preferences» → «Internet» to «/home/<username>/swiftdove/swiftdove» > and > > entering the same command in the form field to the right of «E-mail > program > > :» under «Tools» → «Options» → «E-mail». When I test with «File» → «Send» > → > > «Document as *E*-mail», a notice to the effect that «OpenOffice.org > > [OOo-dev, resp] was unable to find a working e-mail configuration. Please > > save this document locally instead and attach it from within your e-mail > > client.» appears. Saving the document locally and attaching it to an > email > > message is something I already know how to do - but I should very much > like > > to learn how to send Writer documents from the OOo programme !... > > > > Henri > > > > I keep telling you to get rid of SD & just use Thunderbird or SeaMonkey > instead... but no, you keep using it. > > Anyway, your "Customized" version of Thunderbird uses Thunderbird code > for sending mail. Your OOo path should be: > /home/<username>/swiftdove/thunderbird > > I'll expect my usual Van Gogh payment on Christmas this year. > > I can now happily *purge* SwiftDove from my system. :-)
Gary, as usual, your insightful instructions did the trick - changing the last «swiftdove» to «thunderbird» in the OOo-dev email settings did enable me to send a test document directly from Writer as an email attachment ! For this relief, much thanks ! May I ask if I should do the same thing in the Jaunty «Preferences» as well ? I must confess that I fail to understand just why this change works - after all the correct path to Swiftdove is that described in my posting above - but the paucity of dental training I received during my general medical training convinced me never to inspect gift horses' oral cavities.... I'd be more than happy to send you your van Gogh payment this Christmas as well - in the event that you can tell me how I can get it to work properly in Impress ! The slide show doesn't move forward on its own, but requires a space-bar hit every time the presentation is to be advanced one step, nor can I hear Don Mclean's music. As I wrote in a posting to that misdirected thread on improvements to the OOo GUI, to my mind such matters as getting Impress to work properly with .pps files «out of the box» is far more vital to OOo's future than variations on the competition's (in)famous ribbon.... Henri
