On Wednesday 04 July 2007, harry conings wrote:
> HI
> We are trying to move from microsoft office 2000 to openoffice.
> We get data from a as400 and drop it via perl oodoc into openoffice
> documents.
> It works quite well and fast.
> The last feature we need to replace are templates . We use a lot of
> templates in word were we put data from a as400 in
> In the past with microsoft office we dropped the data from the as400 in
> little rtf files
> example    :  name goes in name.rtf
>                         adres goes in adres.rtf
>                     customer number goes in cusnr.rtf
> then we made a template where we inserted the rtf files on the right places
> and connected the files (coupled)
> so that when the rtf files change the template changes
> and oops you push a little button an the as400 screen and you can make a
> letter to the customer.
> we have more than 100 templates with letters to the customer
>
> When i open these templates in openoffice i can not change them an the name
> and adres are not printed out.
> when i try to insert rtf files in openoffice they always use my full wide
> of the page and when i make them smaller
> the text goes smaller.
>
> Is this a good way to proceed

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On Thursday 05 July 2007, NoOp wrote:
>
> Try changing the port number from 25 to 465:
>
> Tools|Options|Internet|OpenOffice.org Writer|Mail Merge E-Mail
>
> However, I'd be careful in using this 'Mail Merge E-Mail" feature. While
> looking for an answer to your problem I found that if you
> configure/enter your email password in the Server Authentication
> portion, the password is *stored in the clear in the Writer.xcu file*:
>
>  <prop oor:name="MailPassword" oor:type="xs:string">
>    <value>thisisyouremailpasswordintheclear</value>
>
> The password is *not* encrypted on the system and the Writer.xcu file
> contains sufficient sufficient information (username, password, email
> address, etc) that I suspect it can be a very easy security target.
>
> Under XP Pro, the OpenOffice.org Writer.xcu is located in
> C:\Documents and Settings\My Username\Application
> Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Writer.xcu
>
> Under most *NIX operating systems, Writer.xcu is located in
> $HOME/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Writer.xcu
>
> If I get some time later I'll search/file this as a bug & security risk.

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