[lug] e-mail merge from spreadsheet

[Nate Duehr]

I smell spam cooking.  (BIG GRIN)

Nate, nate at natetech.com

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:55, Ben Luey wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good way to do an email merge for data in a
> spreadsheet?  Openoffice will do this fine if I want to print a mail
> merge, but I can't get it to convert to document to plain text and e-mail
> it. It only knows how to communicate with kmail and netscape mail (from
> tools, options, external programs, send document as e-mail mssage,
> profiles) and not mail / sendmail (thanks for the suggestion of ssmtp --
> that's just want I wanted) and besides, it still just sends my text
> document as an attached openoffice document.
> 
> Do I need an e-mail program that can do a mail merge? Is there a way to
> get openoffice or some other program to generate a much of e-mails with
> dynamic content based on a spreadysheet and send them out? I'm looking to
> avoid a script, since I'd like to just type the e-mail in my (some) e-mail
> program (evolution?) and just do a mail merge right there.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> Ben Luey
> lueyb at jilau1.colorado.edu
> 
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