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Bug#420469: closed by Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> (Re: Bug#420469: openoffice.org: email settings: undocumented, broken behaviour)



Paolo wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 03:09:11PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > 
> > Got remooved upstream.
> 
> means that you're going to release a new version without such email settings
> pane? how direct sendmail will be handled then?

That example sucks since sendmail itself can't do proper MIME, can it?
Everything OOo does is just composing a mail using the MUAs
arguments/start the MUA. Encoding and ending out is then the MUAs job.

There simply is no direct way to use sendmail directly. Yes, upstream
sucks, but that's no news.

> > You probably use GNOME and have evolution installed... Or just fall into the fallback.
> 
> not at all, evolution(1) is there 'cauz of crazy dependnecies

Then the fallback.

> > >   for configuring it.
> > 
> > Wrong. If you can't think of the possibility to simply add whatever you like
> > in that box, I am sorry, but. Because that is what the senddoc script checks:
> > 
> > looking at senddoc.sh, It knows about:
> 
> where is such senddoc.sh? is it a user config file? 

Do. It's a script. Not a config file.

> # locate senddoc.sh
> # find /usr/lib/openoffice/ -name senddoc.sh

senndoc.sh is how it's called in the source, what's installed is
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/senddoc. Which, with a bit of thinking -
could have douns by you if you eitrher used senddoc* for searching or
looked with ls. But I apologize for my typo.

> nothing at all.
> So, pls explain how a user is supposed to 'simply add whatever he likes in
> that box'; the only box avail is that for the program name/path; also pls 

huh? Just add "kmail" or whatever you like there? What is difficult
there?

> > > user's setting/setup; second, and most important, what the heck means 
> > 
> > That setting never was a conffile system-wide, and the user profile dir changed.
> 
> it's imported by OOo2 from OOo1, hence it's expected to keep its meaning/use.

No, wrong. There's no configs imported from OOo1 to OOo2.

> > > 'supported'? OOo should be neutral wrt helper apps - if it knows exactly how
> > > to pass args to a handful progs, fine (but may put maint. overhead), like 
> > 
> > That's exactly what senddoc does.
> 
> except that noone knows about that.

And why is that a bug in the program?

> > > must be a generic opt for the generic emailer/helper the end-user wants to
> > > use, which would be called by 
> > 
> > This *is* what we try with this. At least for the generic desktop users. I don't like
> 
> it does *not* do that: if it doesn't like the program name the user set in 
> the path box, it just bails out saying it's 'unsupported'.

Because it *IS* unspported then.

Gr�gards,

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