Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org
My Dad asked me for help to diagnose why he could no longer email
documents with openoffice. He was using the 'File -> Send -> E-Mail as
Microsoft Excel' option, but Thunderbird never launched with the
attachment ready for sending.
I found out by using strace that Openoffice was launching the following
program to email its documents:
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/senddoc --mailclient mozilla-thunderbird
--attach /tmp/sv4m0.tmp/sv4mb.tmp/document.xls
Running this in a terminal yeilded the following error:
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/senddoc: 412: mozilla-thunderbird: not found
First bug: the script did *not* exit with a status indicating failure.
Therefore there was no way for Openoffice to find out that the emailing
failed, and hence no way for it to display the message to the end user.
Second bug: Openoffice has 'mozilla-thunderbird' in its preferences
which does not exist on the Ubuntu system; only /usr/bin/thunderbird
exists. This is *not* user-error as my Dad has never touched this
setting.
** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Openoffice sends emails with 'mozilla-thunderbird' which does not exist!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282364
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