Re: script to send out a dozen letters?
Re: script to send out a dozen letters?
Source: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing−Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2009−08/msg00772.html
• From: Gary Kline
• Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:19:13 −0700
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:43:03AM −0400, Tim Kellers wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:07:15PM −0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Gary Kline
wrote:
if there are tools to do this, please point me
at them, but i
want to send out a snail and/or
email|HTML|whatever to a handful
of companies that i hope to find online.
I'm guessing the inside address would me
something like
Company Name
Address
Company Email
Attn Mr. Smith:
[my canned letter]
i forget if the inside address is before the
recipient
address−−I *think* so. is there a way of
having date output
the format "15 August, 2009" rather than my
usual, 15aug09?
I am pretty sure these people are most
accustomed to GUI/html
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mail, so is there a way of invoking evo with
html capability?
if there are web pointers on this, puleeze
clue me in!
thanks much,
gary
−−
Gary Kline kline@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.thought.org Public Service
Unix
http://jottings.thought.org
http://transfinite.thought.org
Not entirely clear on you goal here, but if
this is a repetitive thing
any
of the major scripting lang Perl,PHP,Python etc is easily up
to the task.
Otherwise OpenOffice merge works great too once you get
the hang of it.
i'm thinking of a /bin/sh script. if $1@ caputures a whole line,
that would grab, say
123 Main Street
and $2@ would grab
York, PA 12345−6789
Actually, I'm trying to figure out something I can reuse if and
when necessary, including applying for a JOB!! whatever....
tx,
gary
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−−
Adam Vande More
t may be a bit of overkill, but you might want to take a look at a
customer relationship manager (CRM). Both vtiger and sugarcrm are in
ports (the lastest version of vtiger 5.1 is not yet in the ports, but it
is a snap ti install, anyway). You have the ability to maintain
Contacts and Leads, create merged e−mail templates and other custom
templates in vtiger, and it is so flexible you can hack up the code to
make it do just about anything you can think of without going nuts
trying to figure out how the program does what it does. You need
Apache, php5 with some simple extensions, and MySQL (PostgresQL is
coming soon). vtiger 5.1 also has an html e−mal editor built in and
produces very servicable output.
Leads would be your job prospects, Contacts would be your Leads that
actually produced a dialogue. I've adapted it to handle Student
marketing enquiries and do customized bulk e−mailings where I work and
it is very easy to set−up and use.
Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT
This really looks interesting for when I've finished my book and have
customers and feedback; need to track my ideas to promote novel, deal with
returns and resales. And yes, then finding a job and my third career!
vtiger looks interesting and if the docs are readable, then all the more
so. i'm familiar with everything but mysql. I know it, but am far from
expert. ...Hm.
thanks much for the insight!
gary
−−
Gary Kline kline@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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