Bug#488875: openoffice.org-writer: email mail-merge doesn't connect to smtp server

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

forwarded 488875 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=90045
thanks

Tim Richardson wrote:
> Under settings for Writer there is a choice "Mail Merge E-Mail".
> In which an SMTP server and authentication details are entered.
> When choosing the button "Test Settings" it makes no attempt to contact the server but immediately reports a fail in 
> both tests.
> The e-mail mail merge wizard therefore fails.
> 
> There is a report upstream http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=90045
> in which cornouws@openoffice.org reports that the bug can not be reproduced in a standard Sun build.

That it actually is a problem is obvious from this issue anyway, though.
It even was reported for a platform which is built by Sun.

Don't trust every bogus comment from upstream people.

Marking as forwarded.

Please try whether the unopkg workaround you mention in your last
comment also works on a system covered by this BTS
(Debian sid/Debian testing) - Ubuntu is not and if you reproduce a bug
in Debian sid please also try the workaround on Debian sid instead of
telling that it works in Ubuntu (they take more or less the identical
packages). Thanks.

Regards,

Rene