Page 1 of 1
File > Send > E-mail as PDF does not open e-mail
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:07 pm
by 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
Re: Pdf as email
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:20 pm
by 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.
Re: Pdf as email
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:21 pm
by 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.
Re: Pdf as email
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:18 pm
by 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?
Re: Pdf as email
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:25 pm
by 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).
Re: Pdf as email
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:40 pm
by Villeroy
Mine is set to /usr/bin/thunderbird
Re: Pdf as email
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:27 pm
by 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?
Re: Pdf as email
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:28 am
by Villeroy
I think, this is a case for a Mint forum.
Re: File > Send > E-mail as PDF does not open e-mail
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:03 am
by Thomas12345
You are right.
The problem is caused by xdg-utils.
Ubuntu intentionally changed its functionality for security reasons.
Thanks for the help.
Re: File > Send > E-mail as PDF does not open e-mail
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:47 am
by jcdouglas
Thomas12345 wrote: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.
Re: File > Send > E-mail as PDF does not open e-mail
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:38 am
by Zizi64
... that something as basic as this should be working in 2020.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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?
Re: File > Send > E-mail as PDF does not open e-mail
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:00 am
by Mountaineer
jcdouglas wrote: 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.