From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 16 04:09:50 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 21649106568C for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:09:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B568FC57 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n7G49foZ027425; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:09:45 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Adam Vande More Message-ID: <20090816040944.GA51282@thought.org> References: <20090815234920.GA9094@thought.org> <6201873e0908152007o5d0e3778w3aba9869018fa9cf@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6201873e0908152007o5d0e3778w3aba9869018fa9cf@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org 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 04:09:50 -0000 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 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. > 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org