From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 16 03:07:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A98106568B for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:07:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f199.google.com (mail-yw0-f199.google.com [209.85.211.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8AB8FC4D for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh37 with SMTP id 37so3353725ywh.28 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:07:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=vjGUdJR12QU3ImnIOCs5YOvD6s/I2hVN3qQ2tnK1WTM=; b=RgTGbyl3fqW841pMNsYOSY1NYTJvHGAJOwbSP2GUueJGVpwENhdv5rsT2FeocsmLJy XyfqlX0j3PAMGbEclVncgY9TUXZQW+as4BvD9pf7XFnKi2os/Hz2zfrW8Hj0suVMABwf q6lgR/1Qhx17wZuxazHodGUwsmbLNv13i3LII= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Zfqoxz1OMSDxPzLKVcdQI12BWk9HjjLhn4Hah1fkkTdNUQ81f+h0/DMYT0PIZ+6Dqc +QCguNsCG77V8rNkIoJYZrqaZIVqG7/VFlLhs7q6ojbiKaMipTST7W1hTtEQrw9aTLXU a4fTRNOk4nZdtBfRkPAAnrT9EnW3LB3HwgD4s= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.58.7 with SMTP id g7mr3979781yba.271.1250392035956; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:07:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090815234920.GA9094@thought.org> References: <20090815234920.GA9094@thought.org> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:07:15 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0908152007o5d0e3778w3aba9869018fa9cf@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Gary Kline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: script to send out a dozen letters? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:07:18 -0000 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 > 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@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. -- Adam Vande More