It's not ommitted. It simply moved from the file menu to the tools menu. 

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The Mail merge has shifted to tools alright but the in that process
the Mail merge through E-mail have been omitted. It is quite a useful
function specially when you have electronic newsletter.

SBA: Reassigned to Bettina from the User Experience team for consideration.

The option to merge to email has been omitted since 1.0.1. This is similar to
issue 11244. It is very useful to send out electronic newsletters.

*** Issue 20618 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

this enhancement is covered by issue 20057 and will be implemented with
OpenOffice.org 2.0.

schedule plan for version 2.0 is available here:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OpenOffice_org_trunk.html

For your information: Mail Merge trough Email is available again. If you want to
test it, just download the newest pre-release of OpenOffice 2.0 from
http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html

@ Bettina: i think this issue could be closed now.

I couldn't get it to work on OOo 2.0 without a hack - even if I installed 
javamail - here's how I got it to work - 

http://internet.cybermesa.com/~aaron_w/OOo_email_merge/OOo_email_merge.html

aaron

Created attachment 31249 [details]
mailmerge.py script for enabling e-mailmerge in Writer

Tested fix on fresh XP SP 2 install. Clarifying the procedure:

1. Install Openoffice.org 2

2. Install Sun Java JRE http://www.java.com

3. Install JavaMail http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/ - i.e. extract the 
archive file and append a path to mail.jar in your CLASSPATH environment 
variable. (XP: Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment Variables.)

4. Install Java Activation Framework 
http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html - i.e. extract the 
archive file and append a path to mail.jar in your CLASSPATH environment 
variable. (XP: Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment Variables.)

5. Install mailmerge.py. Instructions for linux are commented in script. For 
XP:

5.1. Copy mailmerge.py into OpenOffice /program/ subfolder.

5.2. Using Command Prompt, change directory to OpenOffice /program/ subfolder 
and type "unopkg add --shared mailmerge.py".

6. Enable mail merge to email in Writer.

6.1. (XP) Change Folder Options in Windows Explorer to show hidden folders and 
extensions for known file types. Writer's config file is in a hidden folder.

6.2. Run Writer, start and then cancel the mail merge wizard. This generates 
the attributes in Writer's config file that you will need to change later.

6.3. Edit "Writer.xcu" in notepad or wordpad. On XP, its path is like: 
C:\Documents and Settings\My Username\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2
\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office\Writer.xcu

6.3.1. Find:
<prop oor:name="EMailSupported" oor:type="xs:boolean">
<value>false</value>
</prop>

6.3.2. Change 'false' to 'true'

Merge to email should now work.

duplicate.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 51638 ***

closing duplicate.