On 04/11/2007, Serge Popper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Harold and thanks much for your prompt reply to my incomplete > message. Please accept my apology. Below is a more complete > description of what is happening. > > I am using Windows XP Home Edition and SeaMonkey 1.1.5 for mail and > browsing. > > The message I get when I attempt to send Document as E-mail is: "The > operation on :\DOCUME~1\Popper\LOCALS~1\Temp\svgpc.tmp was started with > an invalid parameter." > After clicking on the "OK", the following message comes up: "An error > occurred in sending the message. Possible errors could be a missing > user account or a defective setup. Please check the OpenOffice.org > settings or your e-mail program settings." > > As I said, I could not find anything in OpenOffice.org which pertained > to email. However I did find "About Plug-ins" in Sea Monkey and > OpenOffice.org Plug-in is listed among the Plug-ins. The items listed > are numerous and they all have "yes" in the enabled column. I'd be happy > to transcribe them, if you like. > > I mean that two e-mail options, in OpenOffice, in File | Send > Document > as E-mail and E-mail as Microsoft Excel *_do not_* work. However, File > | Send > E-mail as PDF and E-mail as Open Document Spread-Sheet *_do_* > work. > > When looking in Control Panel | Internet Options | Programs, the only > mention of OpenOffice is under the heading of HTML. I have chosen > SeaMonkey in all the other places available. Should I use OpenOffice > for HTML or continue with SeaMonkey as my choice? > > Thanks for your help, Harold, and, again, my apologies for making it > more difficult. > > Serge > > PS Is there a site where all these emails are posted?
Is SeaMonkey configured as the "default" e-mail program? I've never installed it but most programs like this (browsers, e-mail programs, office suites etc.) ask at install time. Alternatively there will almost certainly be an option somewhere within SeaMonkey itself. The Help text may be useful. When you installed SeaMonkey, were you logged in as an Administrator? When you use OpenOffice and try to send your document, are you logged in as Administrator? Does a simple "Save as Microsoft Excel" work OK? Within Writer/Calc, if you do File>Save As, is the "Automatic file name extension" box (near the bottom) checked? If not, does checking it (and possibly restarting OO) make a difference? Oh, before changing options like this within OO I find it worthwhile to do the following: 1. Shut down OO 2 Shut down the quickstarter; if that's running there will be an icon for it in the System Tray (grey/blue with two flying birds pictured). Right click that icon and choose Exit. 3. Start Writer/Calc from the Start>All Programs menu. 4. Make the change(s) 5. Quit Writer?Calc 6. Start Writer/Calc from the Start ... menu A workaround would be to save your document and then explicitly attach it from within SeaMonkey. Does that work?). Otherwise, without actually sitting at your keyboard and "playing" I'm afraid I'm out of ideas. Perhaps someone else ??? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
