Mail merge not sending email

2ways · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:02 pm Post subject: Mail merge not sending email

Hi Folks,

The presenting problem is that when I get to the final stage of sending the documents from a mail merge as email, the sending dialogue pops up, it says the connection to outgoing server has been established, but sits there forever doing nothing, sending nothing.

I am certain it is not primarily a problem with OOo, but rather the setup on my machine, as I will argue below. However, I have no idea where to start to unravel the problem, so I'm hoping for some advice.

Here's the tortured history of this problem:
1. I am on a mac with OSX 10.6.3
- I had the exact same problem with 10.4.11 (Tiger)
2. I have OOo 3.2.0 installed
- I have had the exact same problem with all 3.x versions of OOo
- I have never had this problem with OOo 2.4.x even when both 2.4 and 3.x are installed and I'm having the problem with 3.x
- have been using 2.4 for mail merges
3. recently upgraded from OSX 10.4.11 to 10.6.3
4. before using the mac migration assistant to reinstate my old settings and applications, I installed OOo 3.2, and used it to send mail merge e-mails
- it worked perfectly
- I almost cried tears of joy
5. I then used the migration assistant to get all my old stuff back and mail merge no longer works.
- I almost cried tears of ...
6. mail merge e-mail settings test fine
7. OOo 2.4 mail merge sends e-mails just fine

The upshot is that when I had a clean install of OSX 10.6.3 and OOo 3.2, mail merge worked fine. As soon as I reinstated my old settings from before the upgrade, it stopped working.

I would love to know if anyone else has had this problem and if anyone has any idea where to start in terms of changing and deleting settings on my mac to try to get this working.

Thanks.

stevesaunders · OOo Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2009 Posts: 408

I have had some luck, not with this particular problem, be reseting to manufacturer default settings. Have you tried that?

If You should get it working change your settings one at a time to see which is the monkey wrench.
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Steve ~ Tennessee USA
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Open Office 3.1

2ways · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Steve.

I realise this isn't a mac forum, but how do I reset to factory defaults?

System Preferences? Some kind of boot procedure?

Thanks again.

2ways · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:38 pm Post subject:

I repaired permissions.

That found a couple of Java environment permissions that needed fixing, and now the mail merge works.

I will post back here when I have run a few more tests, but that may even be a few days.

stevesaunders · OOo Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2009 Posts: 408

Sorry, I had my head in Open Office when I answered your question.

I am new to the Mac OX 10.6 myself and do not know how to reset. You might however be able to do something without that. Set up a guest or another user account, it will be at default. Add your changes to it one at a time. When your done you can remove the new user account.
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Steve ~ Tennessee USA
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Open Office 3.1