If necessary, you can do it int he shell. You could probably dump the list of email addresses to a text file (or parse thunderbird's addressbook directly in the shell), then run it through awk (or eqivalent - to add the text of the letter), and pipe it to mail. Whether it's worth it depends on how many you want to send. Jeremy On Saturday 04 August 2007 9:46 am, Jeremy Rosengren wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list