On Tuesday June 19 2007 2:03 pm, Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having some trouble using the mail merge function of
> OpenOffice 2.0 to send emails.
>
> I did some searching on the web and in the OO mailing list archive
> but did not find anything related to the problem I am seeing.
>
> What I did is to setup the Outgoing email server under
>
> Tools -> Options... -> OpenOffice.org Writer -> Mail Merge E-mail
>
> After hitting the "Test Settings..." button right away a window
> pops up, showing two tasks that failed:
>
> - Establish network connection - failed
> - Find outgoing mail server - failed
>
> As fast as this failure shows up, it looks to me that there is
> never a request going out over the network. Actually, looking at
> the LAN switch when hitting the button, shows no activity on the
> network.
>
> I have the same behavior on OpenOffice 2.0.0.1 under Suse 10.0 i586
> and 2.0.4.7 under openSuse 10.2 x86_64.
>
> Is there some other setup that I have to do in order to use this?
>
> I found an explanation about the need to setup mailmerge.py in this
> document:
>
> http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/Email_ma
>ilmerge.pdf
>
> But had some problems with finding the "EMailSupported" entry in my
> Writer.xcu.
>
> I would appreciate if anybody could give me some advice on how to
> solve this.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guenter
First of all, I would suggest you update your version of OOo.
There have been some improvements in the mail merge since 2.0.0. The
current version is 2.2.1.
Dan
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