script to send out a dozen letters?

[Adam Vande More]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> 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
>        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
>
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> 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.


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Adam Vande More