LibreOffice ignores setting mailclient to gnome-gmail

[Peter Tillemans]

LibreOffice does some weird checking on email clients.

by default it sends the mails to "sensible-lomua" which is added by the upstream. However this is not a script, but if this is added it is passed to a delivery script.

It delegates actual delivery to a script : /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/senddoc

The senddoc script is patched upstream to translate "sensible-lomua" to some mail user agent for which an executable is found and rewrites the mail delivery executable. This also has no support for gnome-gmail.

gnome-gmail has the same (or at least similar) CLI params as evolution, so I could workaround the issue by creating a symbolic link :

    cd /usr/bin
    sudo ln -s gnome-gmail evolution

LibreOffice now picks up the executable file and does the right thing.

This is a practical workaround, but rather hacky...

This patch applied to senddoc adds support for gnome-mail :

--- a/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/senddoc 2012-04-10 19:14:24.000000000 +0200
+++ b/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/senddoc 2012-06-11 19:28:19.854232144 +0200
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@
             MAILER=/usr/bin/evolution
         elif [ -n "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" -a -x /usr/bin/kmail ]; then
             MAILER=/usr/bin/kmail
+ elif [ -x /usr/bin/gnome-gmail ]; then
+ # fallback
+ MAILER=/usr/bin/gnome-gmail
         elif [ -x /usr/bin/evolution ]; then
             # default
             MAILER=/usr/bin/evolution
@@ -227,7 +230,7 @@
         rm -f $BODY
         ;;

- evolution)
+ evolution | gnome)

         while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
             case $1 in

the strange addition of "gnome" after "evolution" is because the basename of the mailer is piped through sed to remove 'suffixes" from the name, which also removes the "-gmail" part.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libreoffice-common 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/lib/libreoffice/program/senddoc]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 11 19:01:51 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Could you send your patch to <email address hidden> with a subject prefixed PATCH and as well as a: "made available under the MPL/LGPLv3+" license statement?
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Oh, and thanks for the patch!

[Peter Tillemans (pti-snamellit)]

Posted the patch to the libreoffice mailing list : http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/PATCH-Add-support-for-gnome-mail-to-send-documents-from-file-menu-td3989653.html

[Peter Tillemans (pti-snamellit)]

The patch was applied upstream :

commit 60845a6d213f7e84857608f828dbbfd5d1c69e58
Author: Peter Tillemans <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Jun 26 12:20:36 2012 +0100

    enable gnome-mail and xdg-mail

    Change-Id: Iba47ee76328aeb4734dbeb46322a9516b0ea9f7a

Is there anything else to be done for this bug report?

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Nope, should be fine.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

long released with upstream fix.