Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 87319
send document as mail without client
Last modified: 2014-02-05 13:56:12 UTC
Hello, When users of webmail systems want to send a document via mail they have to save the document, change to the webmail, upload the document and send. According to the apo documentation http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/mail/module-ix.html It should be possible to send document via SMTP directly from OOo without client. There is no need for a full mail application, only a send window. Thanks Andreas
The problem is that in this case the sent mail is gone - not outbox! This can be seen as a data loss.
Hello, IMAP: the mail could simply be store in the "draft" folder. The user can then open this mail, add the body and send it from the webmail client. No interaction and needed in openoffice SMTP/POP3: Send the mail to the users mailbox so the user can forward it from his mailbox. No interaction and needed in openoffice. Advantages for the user is that instead of this steps: save, change to the client, create new mail, open the file attach dialog and search the file in the directory giungle. Send the user performs this steps: "Prepare for mailing" ( better the send to ), change to the mail client IMAP: open the mail in the draft folder ( no need to search on the filesystem ).Send POP3: open the mail in the inbox , forward it IMHO this is much more comfortable Thanks Andreas
I don't know how this answer addresses the problem. If OOo sent out the mail directly with SMTP there is no way to store the sent mail anwhere. This is not part of SMTP and OOo itself does not maintain an "outtray". So we use the local mail client to support this. On Windows this is the Simple MAPI client. Perhaps you mean that in case the SMTP server belongs to the provider that offers the web client it can store all sent mails? Sorry for asking, I don't use Web Mail clients (they are a PITA IMHO) and so I don't know whether the client will store all mails sent with the user's mail address or only those that are sent through the Web GUI. My assumption was that it's the latter and that would mean that the mail sent via SMTP directly indeed is not stored anywhere. What we could do in OOo is supporting Web Client API's (in case there are some) instead of Simple MAPI or SMTP. That could be even provided as an extension of OOo. On Windows someone else even could provide a Simple MAPI client for Web Mail clients and all programs using MAPI would benefit from that. If you wanted to support
Hello, time passed and I am still convinced this could be a good feature. The missing outbox is a non-issue if the user is aware of this or if it is possible to send the mail automatically CC to his mailbox. The user will find the outgoing mail in the inbox instead of the outbox, but filters can move the mail to the right place. Bye Andreas