jomali wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:34 PM, M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> <snip> >> >> Lars, given that I have a so-called «broadband» connexion, rather than a >> dial-up, I can't see any advantages for me in using an email client rather >> than directly loading my webmail provider. If you know any way of >> configuring OOo to directly send a document as an attachment in (in my >> case) >> Gmail, rather than taking a detour via Swiftdove/Thunderbird, I'd be most >> grateful to hear it !...
Henri, I can appreciate wishing to stick with the mail client of your choice, especially since that choice enhances, not infringes, upon the ability of others to also decide. As mentioned, you can launch FF directly into composing a message, /usr/bin/firefox 'https://mail.google.com/mail/h/?v=b&pv=tl&cs=b' That saves a step, but someone else will have to figure out the final step(s) in getting the attachment there automatically. Here is the thread I started for that on the GMail Help Forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5f6bb4d9a668392a&hl=en A work-around might be for thunderbird or alpine to shoot the attachment laden message into the drafts folder and then launch firefox. >> Henri >> > Henri, > > What you're asking for is an e-mail client to be incorporated into OOo. As I > recall, this has been asked for many times before, but the ... <lol> but the askers don't really understand that an e-mail client is just a front end to flat-file databases. Where the UI and the register site are independent. Really that used to be learned in school when 'comptuers' were taught. Anyway, the many times it was asked before got two answers[1]: 1. OOo supports just about any E-Mail client, it's the user's choice, 2. a solution would be to bundle Thunderbird [2] At least for OS X, Linux, Solaris or BSD users, it's a non-issue. </> Keep in mind, a well designed system (including a desktop) is modular and components can and should be interchangeable. These days only one brand is not well designed, to make use of understatement. Also, sending or receiving attachments seem to be a symptom of missing infrastructure components. Not too long ago, nearly 100% of pc-using businesses had at least one pool of interconnected file servers. /Lars [1] Actually three, here's the third answer: 'Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail' [2] "OpenOffice bundles Mozilla, And Firefox-style extensions added." Techworld, 22 Sept 2006. Math Broersma http://news.techworld.com/applications/6944/openoffice-bundles-mozilla/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
