Libre Write Send / Document not attachment created in Thunderbird

sokol92 · October 24, 2024, 5:35pm

We had situations in the past where LO worked with one mail client and did not work with Thunderbird.
The system programmer analyzed the system logs and found out that there was a problem with the AppArmor rules.

Villeroy · October 24, 2024, 6:25pm

Good to know.

Villeroy · October 25, 2024, 12:04pm

This feature (File>Send attachment) requires some kind of communication between different applications that are bundled by the maintainers of your desktop environment. It is their promise, to take care that the entire desktop environment is well integrated, despite the fact that applications come from different maintainers, namely The Document Foundation and Mozilla Foundation.
Personally, I would not bother at all about this minor convenience feature. I do save my documents, and I can attach any file types to emails using any application running on desktop or in a browser.
Nevertheless, it is a bug. I’d suspect that the failure is on the distributor’s side.

Gordonbp2 · October 30, 2024, 12:10pm

How do you see the Apparmor rules? I had a look at the Apparmor website and couldn’t understand it?

sokol92 · October 30, 2024, 1:58pm

Maybe this documentation will be useful.
If you have any specific questions, I’ll invite our Linux specialist and we’ll try to figure it out together.

Gordonbp2 · October 30, 2024, 4:13pm

Both LibreOffice senddoc and Thunderbird are in “Enforced” mode while Evolution is in “Unconfined” mode. Could this be why sending a doc to email works with Evolution but not with TBird?

sokol92 · October 30, 2024, 5:51pm

Yes, it is quite possible.
Try disabling the AppArmor and see if that solves the problem.

Gordonbp2 · October 31, 2024, 8:43am

Didn’t solve it, but now there’s an error message, which there wasn’t before!
“The file file:///tmp/lu61004a8p.tmp/lu61004ab1.tmp/Easter 5.odt does not exist so could not be attached to the message.”

sokol92 · October 31, 2024, 9:11am

Interesting!
And try sending a file whose name does not contain a space.

Gordonbp2 · October 31, 2024, 10:27am

Exactly the same error.

sokol92 · October 31, 2024, 11:12am

Now we have checked that the Thunderbird program works normally with AppArmor disabled in the following configuration:

Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.7
Calc: threaded

Gordonbp2 · November 23, 2024, 10:27am

Uninstall Thunderbird Snap and reinstall via PPA.
Issue solved.