Re: Mailmerge crash (and I have to send out a mailing tomorrow!!!!)

Hi Frank,

I got the mailing out using the windows version of OO which doesn't seem
to have that problem.
Sending the mails manually wasn't such a good idea. >2.000 mails !!!!

I didn't let OO to send a crash report because it didn't ask me! Just
all open windows disappear and the
"Dokument Wiederherstellung" Dialog pops up...

If I find some time, I'll try to track down this problem to a more
informative point.
Is there a way (maybe some hidden commandline option) to start OO to let
it produce some trace / debug output ??

thanks for your help!

Norbert

Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany schrieb:
> Hi Norbert,
>
> sorry for the late response, hope you got your mails out nonetheless ...
>
>   
>> (I'm not quite sure if this is the right mailing list for my issue. But
>> I think, since mail-merge is somehow related to base ...  ;-) )
>>     
>
> In general you're in the right place here. At least, asking won't hurt,
> though ...
>
>   
>> As always, I created a .odt document containing form letter fields. (I
>> did many many mailings in the past). Printing to paper works. I tried
>> that with 2 or 3 recipients. But sending as email crashes.
>> If you want to send a form letter as email, you have to use the
>> Assistant. (Simply pressing Ctrl-P doesn't work because "as e-mail"
>> doesn't exist there. BTW why ???????)
>> I sucessfully got through all the steps of the form-letter assistant
>> dialog. But when I press the "Send" button in the last step, all windows
>> disappear and the document-recreation dialog pops up. No error mesage.
>> Nothing....
>>     
>
> ... in some cases, such as the one you describe, Base hasn't stakes in
> the problem, it seems. Well, that's an educated guess, without
> reproducing the issue, or at least seeing more information about the
> crash (did you let OOo send a crash report?, one cannot say more.
>
> If the problem is reproducible for you, with a certain document and
> database, I suggest you submit an issue, so the problem can be looked
> into more thoroughly.
>
>   
>> Any ideas what I could do?
>>     
>
> Save the single documents to a temporary location, and mail them manually.
>
> Ciao
> Frank
>
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