Issue 126942

Summary:	MS Office blocking AOO attachment to email
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	Bob Donohue <bobadonohue>
Component:	save-export	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE	QA Contact:
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 (lowest)	CC:	knmc, raluca.popa
Version:	3.3.0 or older (OOo)	Keywords:	needmoreinfo
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 10
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description Bob Donohue 2016-04-29 00:25:53 UTC

Sometimes I get an MSOffice box interrupting my attach of a AOO doc to an email. The message says to check in Programs for a repair. I don't want to acknowledge MS Office Suite - too expensive. It is on my computer but has not been activated. I can't work around the block using extension odt and html? anyway, one other extension. Can MS block my AOO legitimately?

Comment 1 orcmid 2016-04-29 03:31:27 UTC

How are you attaching the AOO doc to an email.

 1. Are you creating an email and adding the doc to it as an attachment?

 2. Or are you using the Apache OpenOffice menu selection File > Send > "Document as E-mail ..." feature?  In that case, there may be a problem finding a default email client on your machine and this is raising what you call a "block."  On your machine, because Microsoft Office is present, it may be trying to use Microsoft Outlook but you haven't activated it.

 3. Also, please provide the exact message that you receive when it comes up.

What do you use to send email from your Windows 10 system?  That is important to know so that we can figure out how you can adjust your configuration to remove that problem.

Also, are you creating documents in Microsoft Office formats or are the open documents in OpenDocument Format (the default Writer, Calc, and Impress with extensions .odt, .ods, and .odp)?

Comment 2 Keith N. McKenna 2016-10-18 15:57:01 UTC

As there has been no reply from the original reporter to the request for additional information in over 5 months I am closing this as not reproducible.