[Cialug] MailMerge

[David Champion]

I used to do this in PHP, and merge from a MySQL database, it worked
essentially the same as Dave Crouse's example.

If you're mass emailing, you need to take a lot of care with your headers,
spf records, etc. I tested by sending through my own spam filter (even
spamassasin will give you a good idea) and tried to get the scores as low
as possible.

-dc


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:26 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:

> i love perl;
> unless ( the previous programmer used crazy syntax that should never have
> been allowed to exist, let alone implemented );
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey now.  Whats with all the Perl hate!
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:11 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Awk, old school
> > > Python, my favorite
> > > Bash/etc., ugly
> > > Anything procedural that can iterate over an input file
> > >
> > > Perl if you hate yourself ;-)
> > > Powershell if you _really_ hate yourself
> > >  On Apr 21, 2014 9:01 PM, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Definitely not Word or Write, ... but a simple way to take a template
> > > file
> > > > and a list of data/emails and produce individual emails.
> > > >
> > > > Primary need is to include specific data in the email body, as when
> > using
> > > > BCCs the recipient is obscured.
> > > >
> > > > I see a mailmerge in Perl, but looking to see if that's the best
> > option.
> > > >
> > > >         Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >         Lee
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