send email with attachement from openoffice through thunderbird fails: "unable to open the temporary file"

What version of Ubuntu and openoffice.org are you using? Also does it work if you try sending using openoffice to evolution?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

I am using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, OpenOffice 2.3.0 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.12.
And it works when I use Evolution instead of Thunderbird. Evolution has no problems with 'äöüß'.

How do you send the email attachment using the UNO-Service? Is it a special document that uses it or a script of some type? Can you include the file that attempts to send using this method? I have not used this UNO-Service method of sending emails before so I don't know how it works.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

in OO-Basic:

sUrl = ConvertToUrl( "home/user/data.pdf" )
oMailer = createUnoService("com.sun.star.system.SimpleCommandMail")
oMailClient = oMailer.querySimpleMailClient()
oMessage = oMailClient.createSimpleMailMessage()
oMessage.setRecipient( "<email address hidden>" )
oMessage.setSubject( "Subject" )
oMessage.setAttachement( Array(sUrl) )
oMailClient.sendSimpleMailMessage( oMessage, 1 )

i think this needs careful checking; for me, it failed even for "send email as pdf" with a file containint whitespace and umlauts.

system is up-to-date hardy, mua is thunderbird as well.

error message is (translated from german, so probably not byte-perfect): 'Sending message failed. Temporary file /tmp/sv1g1.tmp/sv1g3.tmp/filename ä.pdf could not be opened. Check your settings for "Temporary folder".'
saving the message to an imap folder fails likewise.

So is the program that is showing the error message Thunderbird?

Chris

I just tested it with the actual Hardy (8.04) Release. The bug doesn't exist anymore. :-)

Ups ... I should check to the end. When I (at last) really try to send it (clicking the send button) the error message appears. And yes, it is an error message from thunderbird.

Chris Cheney wrote:
> ** Changed in: mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: openoffice.org => mozilla-thunderbird
> Status: Incomplete => New
>
>
Can you please give me a few example attachments. I am unable to
reproduce this with my OO.o docs. What version of Ubuntu, Thunderbird,
and OO.o are you using? To find out please run the following commands.
apt-cache policy thunderbird
apt-cache policy openoffice.org
lsb_release -a

 status incomplete

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    John Vivirito

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open a file with an Umlaut öäüÖÄÜ (like the attached one)

in OOo File -> Send -> document as email (with thunderbird/icedove in Extras -> Options -> Internet -> email )

You will get a new message windows from thunderbird/icedove

Enter a recipient and press send.

I just entered a mozilla bugreport because I have the problem an Debian lenny with OOo 2.4 and Thunderbird/Icedove 2.0.0.14:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447606

What is the oo.o application that you are using? woth word processor?

Do you have the correct locale packages for Umlaut öäüÖÄÜ? sorry im not sure of the lang but it looks like german.

I am able to confirm this as Ubuntu Mozilla Team. Changing status to confirmed and going to move process to duplicate bug.

updated description to add procedure, and results information.
added upstream bug to this bug.
Marked as confirmed since i was able to reproduce this bug.

just to add i have this attachment i was trying to send in $HOME/Documents/
not in temporary folder

Lets wait and see what upstream says about this.

Upstream stated this is fixed in 1.9 branch but not in 1.8 and most likely will not be fixed in 1.8 branch closing bug for now please refer to upstream bug for more details.