On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 17:01 -0500, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> I haven't installed open office yet, but this appears to be the best
> tool for me to accomplish a mail merge with. However, I don't want a
> "snail" mail merge, but an e-mail merge, if you will. I use pine for
> e-mail, but, Pine doesn't seem to support mail merge (although it does
> have a form letter).
>
> Once I do the mail merge from open office, what's the best tool to
> e-mail the letters out? I've read a tad about java mail, so my hope
> is that java mail, or whatever, would read the e-mail address
> contained in the letter and send the letter accordingly.
>
The quick answer is enable mailmerge.py under OOo2.x. This package lives
in the program directory where you installed OOo. Use
./unopkg add --shared mailmerge.py to make it available to every
installed user.
Manually edit Writer.xcu and change the following <value> to True:
<prop oor:name="EMailSupported" oor:type="xs:boolean">
<value>false</value>
</prop>
Start OOo nad use the wizard. If none of the above makes sense then
please watch http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html for
the new HOW-T) entitled, "How To Email Mailmerge using mailmerge.py"
which provides a step-by-step procedure.
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