I've thought of that. It's actually for my neighbor and she runs that other operating system that doesn't do shell stuff. I figured if we have to I'd write something for her to use, which it sounds like I might need to do. On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 12:00 -0500, Jeremy wrote: > 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 ________________________________________________________________________ Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39