script to send out a dozen letters?

[Gary Kline]

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 <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
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>> Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >>-- 
> >>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



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