Jon Schewe wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 22:24 -0500, Jeremy Rosengren wrote: > >> Jon Schewe wrote: >> >>> Perhaps someone on this list has tried to do this. I have a list of >>> people in my address book and I would like to email them all a message, >>> but I want it to be personalized, like it would be if you used the mail >>> merge feature of many word processors to print out personalized letters. >>> Does anyone know if this is possible with Thunderbird or how to do it? >>> >>> I'm thinking that I would write something like this: >>> >>> To: %email >>> Subject: Renewal time for services >>> Dear %name, >>> Would you like to renew your service? >>> >>> Than point Thunderbird at this and my email list and generate an email >>> for each person. >>> >>> >>> >> Something like this? http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8238 >> >> > Like that, but sending emails, rather than saving files or printing to a > printer. > > Google says there's nothing available like that for Thunderbird (and we obviously always trust what Google says...) You could probably use OpenOffice to generate the form letters as text files and use a glue script to send out the batch of emails after they're generated. As I was typing that last sentence, I thought of another search to try and came up with this: http://internet.cybermesa.com/~aaron_w/OOo_email_merge/OOo_email_merge.html -- j