File > Send > E-mail as PDF does not open e-mail

[Thomas12345]

In Libreoffice Version: 6.0.7.3 (Linux Mint 19.3) I entered

file > send > Pdf as E-mail...

Result: the file does not appear in the email.

Is there a remedy

[Villeroy]

In order to get the file sent, you should export as pdf and then pick up the pdf with your mail program.
I use the same version of LibreOffice with Thunderbird as default mail client on Ubuntu 18.4. and the direct pass-through to the mail client works fine.

[Thomas12345]

That's a way to do it,
but the simple way by "file>send>Pdf as E-mail" worked in the past. And beside that, the option "Pdf as E-mail" is not a dummy.

[Villeroy]

So you call the menu command "send as pdf" and what exactly happens? Do you get a new mail client window (which one, btw?) starting a new mail without attachment? Is your mail client configured as default mail client?

[Hagar Delest]

Works fine on my xubuntu 20.04 with LO 6.4.6.2 and Thunderbird.

Is there something in Tools>Options>Internet>Email? Mine is set to "sensible-lomua" (without the quotes).

[Villeroy]

Mine is set to /usr/bin/thunderbird

[Thomas12345]

Tools>Options>Internet>Email was empty

With
/usr/bin/thunderbird
thunderburd did not open,

it's a link to
/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh

With /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh
the result is the same as with an empty box

I noticed that the subject of the email is the name of the file, but where is the content?

[Villeroy]

I think, this is a case for a Mint forum.

[Thomas12345]

You are right.
The problem is caused by xdg-utils.
Ubuntu intentionally changed its functionality for security reasons.

Thanks for the help.

[jcdouglas]

You are right.
The problem is caused by xdg-utils.
Ubuntu intentionally changed its functionality for security reasons.

Thanks for the help.

Any information or links on this referenced change? More importantly is there a work around or fix? The problem is my google-fu barely found this thread. Most results are from about 5-10 years ago and I would think that something as basic as this should be working in 2020.

[Zizi64]

... that something as basic as this should be working in 2020.
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OpenOffice 3.1 on Windows Vista / NeoOffice 2.2.3 with MacOS 10.4 / OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu 9.04

Are you using these archaic old versions in 2020?

[Mountaineer]

and I would think that something as basic as this should be working in 2020.

The security-issues may not be different now.

I remember I wrote a macro for a use-case on Windows two years ago and had to assemble a command-line for Thunderbird via shell()

J.