Hi,
I want to send the same email to about 40 people in my company.
But I want each email to look personalized to each of them.
I dont want to have the 'To' part containing 40 email addresses.
But I dont want to send the email 40 times either.
I played around with Microsoft Outlook Express but could not find a way
to do it.
Is there email client out there that would allow me to do this?
Please help.
Ujang
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ujang writes:
> Hi,
>
> I want to send the same email to about 40 people in my company.
> But I want each email to look personalized to each of them.
> I dont want to have the 'To' part containing 40 email addresses.
> But I dont want to send the email 40 times either.
> I played around with Microsoft Outlook Express but could not find a way
> to do it.
> Is there email client out there that would allow me to do this?
Well, if you want each one of the 40 recipients to see a custom version of
this message, it must mean that you need to send 40 customized copies of it,
not just one. Either that, or you need to win the Nobel prize for your
breakthrough discovery in quantum physics, where you somehow managed to
create one file whose contents are different depending on who opens the
file.
I'm guessing that what you're really asking is that you want to push the
"Send" button just once, and have 40 copies of the message pop out, each
copy addressed to its intended recipient; instead of having to push the
"Send" button 40 times, once for each copy of the message. You're still
sending 40 copies, but not one-at-a-time.
No, traditional mail clients don't work like that. You may get lucky if you
go "downtown", and scour spammer-oriented web sites for spam software that
takes an E-mail template, and spews out individual copies of the template,
with each recipients address on the individual copies. Then hope that when
you buy one of these things, your credit card number won't get stolen by the
sleaze that peddles this spamware, and get charged with a few thousand
dollars' worth of porn, and the spamware itself won't come quietly packaged
with a virus or a trojan that will turn your PC into a zombie process.
Or, do what other mainstream companies do that have an actual IT department:
they have their IT guys write a custom-designed script that generates the
required E-mails, and delivers them to their intended recipients.
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, ujang wrote:
u> I want to send the same email to about 40 people in my company.
u> But I want each email to look personalized to each of them.
u> I dont want to have the 'To' part containing 40 email addresses.
u> But I dont want to send the email 40 times either.
u> I played around with Microsoft Outlook Express but could not find a way
u> to do it.
u> Is there email client out there that would allow me to do this?
u> Please help.
u>
u> Ujang
u>
As you have mentiond "Microsoft", you can do a mailmerge to email with
microsoft word. I do this at work but I can't remember exactly how as I
only use it twice a year and I set it up some time ago. I have a table
with names and email addresses. The name is set up as a field on the
document and this document is somehow merged to the email address. Have
fun - it seems to be a powerful spamming tool!
--
Alan
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