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On Saturday 21 October 2006 02:09 am, NoOp wrote: > With apologies to the OP. I put the [linux] tag on so that Windows > users can skip this. > > OOo: 2.0.4 > OS: Linux (Ubuntu 6.061 LTS - Kernel 2.6.15-27-386) > > Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:34:52 -0400 > > > > Pete Holsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just installed v2.04 over 2.03 and I still cannot use any of > >> the Send as email options. OOo cannot find an appropriate email > >> client. > >> > >> Under Tools > Options > Internet, there's nothing that let's me > >> set the email client. > >> > >> Thanks. > > > > Hello, Everyone > > As an experiment I tried the following: > > 1. Opened up a file in OpenOffice.org 2.0.4. > > 2. Choose "File | Send | Document as E-mail" This caused the > > following error: > > http://www.afolkey2.net/OO-3.jpg > > This error, of course, does not specify where to go to set up a > > working E-mail configuration. > > > > So, I proceeded to do as follows: > > 3. I went to "Tools | Options | Internet | E-mail" See > > screenshot: http://www.afolkey2.net/OO-2.jpg > > > > 4. I clicked on the button with three dots and browsed to the > > following location: > > /usr/bin/sylpheed-claws > > Then I clicked "OK" > > You may have hit on something. I noticed that OOo doesn't seem to > use a path that is not in /usr/bin/ - For instance, if I put a path > (meaning the Tools|Options|Internet|E-mail path) for Seamonkey in: > /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey (or seamonkey-bin), I get the "not > configured" error. > > However, if I put anything from /usr/bin in the path: evolution, > mozilla, etc., OOo will actually start the program. Examples: > > Path entry: > "evolution" - brings up the evolution email program (I have this > installed) /usr/bin/evolution - ditto > "mozilla" - brings up Mozilla Firefox (I have this installed) > /usr/bin/mozilla - ditto > seamonkey - error > /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey - error > > Now, the /usr/bin/mozilla is a symbolic link to Firefox; there is > no symlink to seamonkey. Ditto for evolution. > Note that /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey is the proper path to run > my Mozilla Seamonkey program but OOo doesn't seem to recognize > this. > > So, I'm wondering if OOo has a configuration error that doesn't > allow it to follow anything other than a /usr/bin path. Tomorrow > I'll create a symlink in /usr/bin to Seamonkey and see if that > works. > > Perhaps one of the OOo development folks can tell us exactly how > this path process works and what the config files are so that we > can modify and/or put in the proper path information? I just added a symbolic link to seamonkey: ln -s /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey. OOo 2.0.4 (Linux) still does not recognize Seamonkey as a properly configured email client even after closing and restarting OOo. Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
