Re: [Evolution] Mail merge

[Keith Barber <keith keith barber name>]

OK thanks for that.  

I don't know if it's an enhancement anyone has in mind, or whether anyone might consider it?  It is the one feature I miss from Thunderbird, although I found Thunderbird just was not reliable enough in many other ways.

-- 

Best wishes

Keith Barber

(He/him)

On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 08:36 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:

On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 14:19 +0100, Keith Barber wrote:

Is it possible to use Evolution to mailmerge to multiple recipients

using information from a database?  If so, would someone point me to

somewhere I might read how to do it?

        Hi,

there is no such thing builtin. You can use scripts to fill the Outbox [*],

but it's far from an automated way.

The closest are probably Templates, but it's used with individual

messages, not with a database of the recipients.

        Bye,

        Milan

[*] I would enable sending through Outbox in Edit->Preferences->Mail

    Preferences, then create a stub email in Evolution and "send" it

    with the appropriate account and content; then go to the On This

    Computer/Outbox and save the message as .mbox somewhere and delete

    the message in the Outbox. Disable send through Ootbox (not needed

    anymore). Then have the script modify the saved message and save

    it with a unique name into

    ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/.Outbox/new/

    and when you go to the Outbox folder in the Evolution (and then away

    from it), then the messages from the 'new' directory will be noticed

    and shown in the Evolution.

   

    Why to save from the Outbox? The message will contain the information

    about what send account should be used. If not there, the default

    account would be used.

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