How about enabling the sylpheed workaround in <path_to>\soffice that is
outlined in the readme? Should work.
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 22:07 +0100, Denis Prost wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know this is a very old thread, but since the problem is still there
> for me with OO 2.0 on my debian testing system, I thought maybe the
> workaround I found could help.
>
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 18:34 -0400, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > When sending a file using OO's send-file function, I can get a blank,
> > unsaved word processing file to attach itself to a Sylpheed email
> > form. But when I try to do the same thing with a working file, one
> > which I've saved to a specific directory, OO no longer attaches the
> > file to the Sylpheed-Claws email. I have to do it manually. Where
> > does the "attach" function in OO look to find the file it will attach
> > to a specified email client? Or is this, as they say, a known issue?
> > The problem does not arise using Thunderbird. With T-bird, OO will
> > attach the file wherever I have saved it.
> >
> > I have experimented with Sylpheed with the Mozilla plugin activated
> > and deactivated. No difference. Suggestions? (Aside from: Stay with
> > Thunderbird ;-) )
>
> I have exactly the same behaviour and noticed it only happens with
> files whose name contains blank characters. When mozilla-thunderbird
> is selected in the e-mail option dialog box, OO runs :
>
> mozilla-thunderbird -compose -attach <filename with blanks replaced by
> %20>,
>
> so it works, while, when sylpheed-claws-gtk2 is selected, OO runs
>
> sylpheed-claws-gtk2 --attach <filename>
>
> without quotes around <filename> nor replacement of blank characters,
> so it fails whenever <filename> contains blanks.
>
> the workaround I found is to put somewhere in my path the following
> shell script, called sylpheed-claws_for_oo.sh
>
> #!/bin/sh
> args="$*"
> file=${args/--attach /}
> sylpheed-claws-gtk2 --attach "$file"
>
> and select it as mail program in OO options.
> Then, sending any file as attachment through OO seems to work.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> regards,
>
> Denis
>
>
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