If this was a vote. I agree it needs to be done. A major idea that needs to be rethought. It would work better if it just worked for email clients and there would be probably less code in writer. On Friday, 13 April 2012, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
I had cause the other day to do a Mail Merge to Email in Writer. I was horrified to discover that the Mail Merge to Email function does NOT call the default email client, but uses an in-built smtp function within Writer. The major problem with that as far as I can see is that there is NO RECORD ANYWHERE of the emails sent by that process. Surely in the days of Sarbanes-Oxley and other legislation that is an appalling omission? Wouldn't it be far easier to call the default email client rather than use some in-built sending mechanism, just like it does if you use the File-Send-Document as Email? Secondly (and this is a usage comment not a plea for a change of function!)) using a Gmail account in this function causes LO to become non-responsive - it doesn't like the SSL function.... -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing:http://gbplinuxfoss.**blogspot.com/<http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/> Say No to OOXMLhttp://www.linuxjournal.**com/article/9594#mpart8<http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8> I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+help@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> List archive: http://listarchives.**documentfoundation.org/www/**discuss/<http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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