From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 22:49:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alexandria.murdoch.edu.au (alexandria.murdoch.edu.au [134.115.241.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E362C15842 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:48:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com) Received: from guru.wow.aust.com (regmac23.murdoch.edu.au [134.115.241.182]) by alexandria.murdoch.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA69441; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:47:13 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com) Message-ID: <38227D71.A3F7CD4A@guru.wow.aust.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 14:47:36 +0800 From: Jarvis Cochrane Reply-To: jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com Organization: Murdoch University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Mail merge from command line? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm wondering if there is some tool that will let me perform "mail merges" from within shell scripts or driven by cron. I work the student administration office of a University and we are considering doing direct e-mails of information out to students to save on paper and envelope stuffing. We need to be able to easily create template files that can then be filled in with custom information for each student - name, address, course details, etc. It'd be really great if, as well as plain text files, we could also produce PDF or postscript files if required. Any ideas and feedback greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jarvis -- Jarvis Cochrane, IT Support Office of Student Services | jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com Murdoch University | cochrane@central.murdoch.edu.au Western Australia | [61|0] 8 9360 6128 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message