During my DOS time (still work regular in DOS) I had a editor with which I could write personalized letters. The program (forgot the name) was able to use the names from a list and would insert those names in predestined places. Nice program in order to make tens of "personal" letters to a lot of people without much work. Right now I want to compose an email and send it to ten to fifteen people. These email's should make the impression that they are meant for the addressee only. Any chance that one of the programs in 9.3 does something like above mentioned antique DOS program? Preferably in an mailer. I am using mainly Kmail but the manual does not mention such a program.
On Monday 18 July 2005 12:38 pm, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
During my DOS time (still work regular in DOS) I had a editor with which I could write personalized letters. The program (forgot the name) was able to use the names from a list and would insert those names in predestined places. Nice program in order to make tens of "personal" letters to a lot of people without much work. Right now I want to compose an email and send it to ten to fifteen people. These email's should make the impression that they are meant for the addressee only. Any chance that one of the programs in 9.3 does something like above mentioned antique DOS program? Preferably in an mailer. I am using mainly Kmail but the manual does not mention such a program. I think you are talking about a mail-merge feature. Most word processors have this feature, such as OpenOffice.org and KWord. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 00:00, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Monday 18 July 2005 12:38 pm, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
During my DOS time (still work regular in DOS) I had a editor with which I could write personalized letters. The program (forgot the name) was
I think you are talking about a mail-merge feature. Most word processors have this feature, such as OpenOffice.org and KWord. -- No mailers with such a function?
On Monday 18 July 2005 1:15 pm, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 00:00, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Monday 18 July 2005 12:38 pm, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
During my DOS time (still work regular in DOS) I had a editor with which I could write personalized letters. The program (forgot the name) was
I think you are talking about a mail-merge feature. Most word processors have this feature, such as OpenOffice.org and KWord. --
No mailers with such a function? I think that most Linux email programs have this capability by using their address book.
Actually, listserv software, such as mailman, ezlim, majordomo et. al. can be used for this purpose. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
* C. Brouerius van Nidek <constant@indo.net.id> [07-18-05 12:16]: ...
No mailers with such a function?
Mutt can accomplish as much with it's aliases and hooks. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
Mon, 18 Jul 2005, by constant@indo.net.id:
During my DOS time (still work regular in DOS) I had a editor with which I could write personalized letters. The program (forgot the name) was able to use the names from a list and would insert those names in predestined places. Nice program in order to make tens of "personal" letters to a lot of people without much work. Right now I want to compose an email and send it to ten to fifteen people. These email's should make the impression that they are meant for the addressee only. Any chance that one of the programs in 9.3 does something like above mentioned antique DOS program? Preferably in an mailer. I am using mainly Kmail but the manual does not mention such a program.
Easy to script in a shell with nail, or in any other scripting language with a mail library like e.g. perl, python or tcl. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.
On Monday 18 July 2005 15:07, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Mon, 18 Jul 2005, by constant@indo.net.id:
During my DOS time (still work regular in DOS) I had a editor with which I could write personalized letters. The program (forgot the name) was able to use the names from a list and would insert those names in predestined places. Nice program in order to make tens of "personal" letters to a lot of people without much work. Right now I want to compose an email and send it to ten to fifteen people. These email's should make the impression that they are meant for the addressee only. Any chance that one of the programs in 9.3 does something like above mentioned antique DOS program? Preferably in an mailer. I am using mainly Kmail but the manual does not mention such a program.
Easy to script in a shell with nail, or in any other scripting language with a mail library like e.g. perl, python or tcl.
Theo
Without meaning to sound argumentative, Theo, for many newcomers to Linux this is NOT easy at all. I, for example am relatively new to Linux, but not to computers, having had one since the late 70's. I have no idea how to proceed with scripting, what a mail library is, etc. I'm willing to learn those things, but some of the time we just need to get a job done. I think the original poster just wanted to do a mail merge from his address book, something that should be able to be accomplished without much fuss from within Open Office. What would be useful to know is whether Open Office can read Kaddressbook files. Open Office doesn't appear to, although it apparently can read Evolution files. Robert Smits Ladysmith BC
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