Mail merge won't e-mail

[Stripey]

Good morning,
I have been trawling posts about this for three days and even though a number of these threads/ posts have been written, back in 2016, with the 'Solved' message, they do not appear to tell how the situation was solved. I am running OO 4.1.5 on a Windows 7 OS. I have installed, and correctly set up Thunderbird , being able to send and receive e-mails. I have set my default settings to Thunderbird. In the past I was able to complete my report data in a spreadsheet, one column of which was headed 'e-mail' where I would put my clients' e-mail addresses, then I would create in writer a merged document using the data from the spreadsheet, then I would print the merged document for my files and also send as an e-mail the individual report to the individual client at the push of a button, using the e-mail addresses written in the column of the spreadsheet... This is no longer the case. Other threads say 'Tools > Options > Internet > E-mail', when I go there, there is no 'E-mail option', it says 'Proxy' or 'Search'. I have uninstalled and re-installed both OO and Thunderbird, checked and re-checked default settings. Is it that this is no longer a supported service with OO? I am not going to send individual e-mails and attach each report manually... Would love a solution if you can think of one... Many thanks, Stripey

[Stripey]

As an addendum, I found this link on a library site that explains how it is done in MS Excel/ Word, and it is more or less what i use to be able to do in OO... But now I can't [http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/q- ... mail-merge], Thanks

[Stripey]

And if you look on the Wiki how (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... orm_letter) it goes all the way through and stops at E-mail...

[Stripey]

This is my error message: <class 'smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused'>: (530, '5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. 184sm6101465pfd.156 - gsmtp', u'mark@rainbowridge.nsw,edu.au'), traceback follows
C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice 4\program\python-core-2.7.6\lib\smtplib.py:724 in function sendmail() [raise SMTPSenderRefused(code, resp, from_addr)]

[John_Ha]

If your email is not set up properly see Chapter 5 - E-mailing Writer documents in the manual.

That being said, are you sure you used AOO mail-merge to send emails? I don't think that is possible as mail merge creates printed documents. The AOO manual says in Chapter 11 - Using Mail Merge

What is mail merge?
OpenOffice.org (OOo) [AOO] Writer provides very useful features to create and print:
• Multiple copies of a document to send to a list of different recipients (form letters)
• Mailing labels
• Envelopes

Or are you using LO? or another fork of OpenOffice?
As a new poster you will find much useful information in the Writer FAQ, the Writer Tutorials, the up to date Writer guide and the Writer Manual. May I suggest you bookmark the pages.

Press F1 to access the Help screen and search for your problem

The chapter headings in the manual are:

1 - Introducing Writer
2 - Setting up Writer
3 - Working with Text
4 - Formatting Pages
5 - Printing, Exporting, Faxing and E-Mailing
6 - Introduction to Styles
7 - Working with Styles
8 - Working with Graphics
9 - Working with Tables
10 - Working with Templates
11 - Using Mail Merge
12 - Tables of Contents, Indexes and Bibliographies
13 - Working with Master Documents
14 - Working with Fields
15 - Using Forms in Writer
16 - Customizing Writer – Keyboard shortcuts.

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