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How to associate opne office with my e-mail account
I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from Vista Home Premium. Every time I try to send a document from Open Office by e-mail, a drop down tells me that I have to establish an association with my mail program. I have tried Xfinity , which is my mail service at mail.comcast.net, Open Office on line help and Windows and have gotten no answer as how to do this. When I check my File Explorer and Programs, I find no program named Xfinity or Comcast mail.
Can you please help me out on this?
Pat Flynn
shirlpat @comcast.net
Re: How to associate open office with my e-mail account
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 14:46 13/01/2013 -0600, James Plante wrote:
>On Jan 13, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
>>At 16:35 13/01/2013 +0000, Pat Flynn wrote:
>>>I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from Vista Home Premium.
>>>Every time I try to send a document from Open Office by e-mail, a
>>>drop down tells me that I have to establish an association with my
>>>mail program. I have tried Xfinity, which is my mail service at
>>>mail.comcast.net, Open Office on line help and Windows and have
>>>gotten no answer as how to do this. When I check my File Explorer
>>>and Programs, I find no program named Xfinity or Comcast mail.
>>
>>You appear to be using Zimbra as your mail client - the local
>>program on your PC in which you compose messages and which
>>transmits them to your mail provider, Comcast. If this is so, you
>>should be looking to associate OpenOffice with Zimbra, not with
>>Xfinity or Comcast. OpenOffice should use your default e-mail
>>program, so you may need to educate Windows 8 as to what this is.
>
>Won't work, Brian. Zimbra's browser-based. From the VMware site:
>"VMware Zimbra is an enterprise-class email, calendar and
>collaboration solution, built for the cloud, both public and
>private. With a redesigned browser-based interface, Zimbra offers
>the most innovative messaging experience available today, connecting
>end users to the information and activity in their personal clouds."
>
>OpenOffice wants a dedicated mail client like T-bird, Outlook, or
>Apple's Mail.
That's the Zimbra Collaboration Server. The web site also says, of
Zimbra Desktop:
"The free Zimbra Desktop client delivers a consistent user experience
offline, so email, voice, social, calendar, contacts, files and
documents are synchronized and locally accessible when on the road."
- and under Key features:
"Read email from any POP or IMAP email account including AOL, Hotmail
or business email"
It seems to me that this version is a PC client. But yes, it may be
that the questioner is using the browser-based version - in which
case, as you say, OpenOffice will have no way to speak to it.
Brian Barker
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Re: How to associate open office with my e-mail account
Posted by James Plante <ji...@me.com>.
Won't work, Brian. Zimbra's browser-based. From the VMware site:
"VMware Zimbra is an enterprise-class email, calendar and collaboration solution, built for the cloud, both public and private. With a redesigned browser-based interface, Zimbra offers the most innovative messaging experience available today, connecting end users to the information and activity in their personal clouds."
OpenOffice wants a dedicated mail client like T-bird, Outlook, or Apple's Mail.
Jim Plante
On Jan 13, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 16:35 13/01/2013 +0000, Pat Flynn wrote:
>> I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from Vista Home Premium. Every time I try to send a document from Open Office by e-mail, a drop down tells me that I have to establish an association with my mail program. I have tried Xfinity, which is my mail service at mail.comcast.net, Open Office on line help and Windows and have gotten no answer as how to do this. When I check my File Explorer and Programs, I find no program named Xfinity or Comcast mail.
>
> You appear to be using Zimbra as your mail client - the local program on your PC in which you compose messages and which transmits them to your mail provider, Comcast. If this is so, you should be looking to associate OpenOffice with Zimbra, not with Xfinity or Comcast. OpenOffice should use your default e-mail program, so you may need to educate Windows 8 as to what this is.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
>
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Re: How to associate open office with my e-mail account
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 16:35 13/01/2013 +0000, Pat Flynn wrote:
>I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from Vista Home Premium. Every
>time I try to send a document from Open Office by e-mail, a drop
>down tells me that I have to establish an association with my mail
>program. I have tried Xfinity, which is my mail service at
>mail.comcast.net, Open Office on line help and Windows and have
>gotten no answer as how to do this. When I check my File Explorer
>and Programs, I find no program named Xfinity or Comcast mail.
You appear to be using Zimbra as your mail client - the local program
on your PC in which you compose messages and which transmits them to
your mail provider, Comcast. If this is so, you should be looking to
associate OpenOffice with Zimbra, not with Xfinity or
Comcast. OpenOffice should use your default e-mail program, so you
may need to educate Windows 8 as to what this is.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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Re: How to associate opne office with my e-mail account
Posted by Hagar Delest <ha...@laposte.net>.
Forwarding to OP (not subscribed to the list).
Hagar
Le 13/01/2013 19:33, James Plante a écrit :
> Pat,
> OpenOffice wants a mail client, not an e-mail service. What you're describing is a web-based mail service.
>
> You might have several web-based mail services. Just for purposes of demonstration, let's say you have a gmail account, a yahoo account, and your Xfinity account. It is possible for you to check all three accounts with a single mouse-click if you do the following:
>
> Open Outlook or Outlook Express. If you don't have either of those, download Thunderbird and open it. Somewhere in the preferences for those programs--called "mail clients"--there will be a tab labeled "Accounts." Set up each of your accounts in your selected mail client. Let's say they're Pat22@Yahoo.com; Pat167@gmail.com; and Pat88@Xfinity.com.
>
> Once you have your accounts set up in your mail client, you can tell OpenOffice to use that mail client to send e-mail. Just set the association with, say, Outlook. Outlook should be set to send messages from one of these accounts by default; you'd likely choose Pat88@Xfinity.com as the default account.
>
> Having done that, the next time you choose to e-mail a document you'll be given the choice of sending the native document (e.g., MyPaper.doc) or a PDF (e.g., MyPaper.PDF). In the latter case, the document will be converted to PDF and attached to a blank e-mail message. You can fill in the addressee and subject line, and add a message in the body. Then click the "send" button as you normally would.
>
> Regards,
> Jim Plante
>
> On Jan 13, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Pat Flynn <sh...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from Vista Home Premium. Every time I try to send a document from Open Office by e-mail, a drop down tells me that I have to establish an association with my mail program. I have tried Xfinity , which is my mail service at mail.comcast.net, Open Office on line help and Windows and have gotten no answer as how to do this. When I check my File Explorer and Programs, I find no program named Xfinity or Comcast mail.
>>
>>
>> Can you please help me out on this?
>>
>>
>> Pat Flynn
>> shirlpat @comcast.net
>
>
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Re: How to associate opne office with my e-mail account
Posted by James Plante <ji...@me.com>.
Pat,
OpenOffice wants a mail client, not an e-mail service. What you're describing is a web-based mail service.
You might have several web-based mail services. Just for purposes of demonstration, let's say you have a gmail account, a yahoo account, and your Xfinity account. It is possible for you to check all three accounts with a single mouse-click if you do the following:
Open Outlook or Outlook Express. If you don't have either of those, download Thunderbird and open it. Somewhere in the preferences for those programs--called "mail clients"--there will be a tab labeled "Accounts." Set up each of your accounts in your selected mail client. Let's say they're Pat22@Yahoo.com; Pat167@gmail.com; and Pat88@Xfinity.com.
Once you have your accounts set up in your mail client, you can tell OpenOffice to use that mail client to send e-mail. Just set the association with, say, Outlook. Outlook should be set to send messages from one of these accounts by default; you'd likely choose Pat88@Xfinity.com as the default account.
Having done that, the next time you choose to e-mail a document you'll be given the choice of sending the native document (e.g., MyPaper.doc) or a PDF (e.g., MyPaper.PDF). In the latter case, the document will be converted to PDF and attached to a blank e-mail message. You can fill in the addressee and subject line, and add a message in the body. Then click the "send" button as you normally would.
Regards,
Jim Plante
On Jan 13, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Pat Flynn <sh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I recently upgraded to Windows 8 Pro from Vista Home Premium. Every time I try to send a document from Open Office by e-mail, a drop down tells me that I have to establish an association with my mail program. I have tried Xfinity , which is my mail service at mail.comcast.net, Open Office on line help and Windows and have gotten no answer as how to do this. When I check my File Explorer and Programs, I find no program named Xfinity or Comcast mail.
>
>
> Can you please help me out on this?
>
>
> Pat Flynn
> shirlpat @comcast.net
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