> I don't use mail merge myself very often but having also come here from > Thunderbird, and having even advised Thunderbird users to try the > Libre/Open Office method, I am familiar with the concept and practice > of mail merge and I am very disappointed at the response (or should I > call it denial?) you have received here. I'm surprised that you've had > to explain it. I'd have hoped for a response more on the lines of "we > understand what you want, but sorry, we aren't planning on doing that."
Mail merge as a process was always a function of office, not mail, applications. It's not something that non-business people ever do so I'm not surprised that people are not that familiar with the concept. It's also a complex process to get reliably correct, even dedicated programs get it wrong. It's easy to say "how difficult is it to get a text file and put column 1 here and column 2 there", but it always goes further than that with conditionals and extended logic. At least with an office application you can check before mailing out a few hundred sheets of paper that it's correct - with email, you don't even get that chance. Personally, if I want to send individual messages to multiple people I use a shell script. If I did it very often I would look at dedicated bulk mail programs. > > I don't think I'll be staying with Evo. Lousy printing and absolutely > no control of fonts in sent HTML messages. There's a new editor in the next version; you can also use external editors if you want to do more complex formatting. Didn't there was anything wrong with printing. > Too many clicks to do things > where I'm accustomed to keyboard shortcuts. So use keyboard shortcuts, there's plenty of them. Help (Alt-H) -> Contents (F1) -> Shortcut keys P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
