On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 15:44, Larry Hansford wrote: > At 02:57 PM 2/7/2003, you wrote: > >Finally - one question about the features of Mailman. Is it possible to > >set up a "mail merge" (like with MS Word or other word processing > >software) so that I could put something like :firstname: in the outgoing > >mail and have Mailman replace it with its stored First name for that > >address (basically to personalize the outgoing message). >
To continue where Larry left off, You can run Mailman in Personalization mode in which it can substitute the persons name for a variable that you use in the Mail's header or footer. The Personalization aspects of Mailman are minimal as this is the first version (v 2.1.0) that has included personalization, user names (as opposed to simply email addresses), and VERP style troubleshooting. If you don't find that Mailman doesn't meet your needs as well as you think it should, then feel free to drop up to Sourceforge.net and add some suggested changes and features. Detailed examples of requests (and the code to carry them out) are welcome at all Open Source projects. Also, the code is Open and available so it is easy for you to hack into and add or extend any functionality that you need. This is part of the way that Open Source projects grow. Aside: The part that is still missing from Mailman is an SQL connector. Once that is in place then it will be very easy to add all sorts of personalization variables - allowing you to run mail merges that are the envy of Marketing groups the world-over! Take care - Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
