Bug 107894

Summary: MAILMERGE: Integrate mail merge credential handling with OS services
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) <kelemeng>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: ilmari.lauhakangas, libreoffice
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 102998    

Description Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2017-05-16 13:35:15 UTC 
Currently if someone wants to use mail merge from LO, she has to enter e-mail credentials in the Options - LibreOffice Writer - Mail Merge E-mail settings panel.

This is problematic in enterprise environments with many users, few administrators and a password policy that makes passwords expire after some months.

A better solution would be to - optionally - integrate the acquition of such data (Name, E-mail, Outgoing mail server user name and password) with the OS level user credential handling.

On Linux, I think this should be possible using gnome-online-accounts, for example.
On Windows, I'm told there are excellent SSO APIs for this as well.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2017-05-22 16:33:50 UTC 
Sounds good -> NEW