I need advice on mail merge.
I set up MailMerge e-mail sending information Writer, using an app password for PurelyMail. I click ‘Test Settings’. Writer freezes. On one occasion, after waiting quite some time, I tried to close the dialogue box and received an error (more often, Writer just crashes). The message was:
LibreOffice could not connect to the outgoing mail server. Check your system's settings and the settings in LibreOffice. Check the server name, the port and the secure connections settings
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<class 'ConnectionAbortedError'>: [WinError 10053] An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine, traceback follows
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\mailmerge.py", line 304, in connect
self.server = imaplib.IMAP4(server, port)
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 201, in __init__
self._connect()
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 243, in _connect
self.welcome = self._get_response()
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 1050, in _get_response
resp = self._get_line()
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 1158, in _get_line
line = self.readline()
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 314, in readline
line = self.file.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\socket.py", line 669, in readinto
return self._sock.recv_into(b)
Previous efforts to test settings (when not all settings were correct) gave a somewhat similar error (but no freeze), and the X, failed connection response.
Starting LO in safe mode (and reentering all the connection info) didn’t freeze, but did give the following error.
LibreOffice could not connect to the outgoing mail server. Check your system's settings and the settings in LibreOffice. Check the server name, the port and the secure connections settings
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<class 'imaplib.IMAP4.abort'>: socket error: unterminated line: b'\x15\x03\x03\x00\x02\x01Z\x15\x03\x03\x00\x02\x01\x00', traceback follows
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\mailmerge.py", line 304, in connect
self.server = imaplib.IMAP4(server, port)
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 201, in __init__
self._connect()
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 243, in _connect
self.welcome = self._get_response()
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 1050, in _get_response
resp = self._get_line()
File "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\python-core-3.8.18\lib\imaplib.py", line 1164, in _get_line
raise self.abort('socket error: unterminated line: %r' % line)
Any advice?
