Description: Hi, I was able to create a mail merge document sending a pdf-attachment to about 150 recipients. But my internet provider allows sending only 20 messages within on SMTP-connection. Trying to sent to all 150 recipients will fail, starting with number 21... Sending in peaces of maximum 20 recipients (1-20, 21-40, 41...)is working. Steps to Reproduce: 1.sending a mail-merge-email to more recipients your internet service provider allow to sent in one smtp-connection. 2. 3. Actual Results: reject messages starting by message number <maximum recipients per connection> + 1 Expected Results: the mail-merge-email dialog should request a value for <maximum recipients per connection>. the mail-merge process should establish a smtp-connection and send maximum messages defined by <maximum recipients per connection> then the smtp-connection should be dropped and reestablished for sending the next number(<maximum recipients per connection>) of outstanding message. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: By the way: sending messages after messages manually, every time the complete sending dialog has to filled out from scratch. Wouldn't it be smarter to prefill the information from the session before? Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 30(Build:2) CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 Calc: threaded
Ralf, thank you for your request. Use case seems to be very special but let's ask design-team about their opinion. cc: Design-Team
Mass email is usually send to all recipients in BCC and not one by one. But you loose the personalization, of course. I could imagine that provider use an increasing period like 10 seconds after the first 20 messages, but 1 minutes after 40, and 1 hour after 60 etc. just to block this potential spamming. So the suggested option is becoming complex.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > Mass email is usually send to all recipients in BCC and not one by one. But > you loose the personalization, of course. How is this relevant to the Mail Merge, which is, *by definition*, about sending personalized mails? IMO, unrelated comments only clutter issues, making them less manageable. Indeed, this is a reasonable request. I had a feeling that we had something similar, but can't find at the moment -> NEW.
(In reply to RalfK from comment #0) > By the way: > sending messages after messages manually, every time the complete sending > dialog has to filled out from scratch. > Wouldn't it be smarter to prefill the information from the session before? It is bug 149703 (and similar bug 144771).
We discussed the topic in the design meeting and suggest to add a GtkFrame "Options" at Tools > Options > Writer > Mail Merge with a checkbox " [ ] Break every [ 100] messages for [ 5] s" (the actual values could need a review).