Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:19:13 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: script to send out a dozen letters? Message-ID: <20090816071913.GA7602@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4A87AA77.3010504@wallnet.com> References: <20090815234920.GA9094@thought.org> <6201873e0908152007o5d0e3778w3aba9869018fa9cf@mail.gmail.com> <20090816040944.GA51282@thought.org> <4A87AA77.3010504@wallnet.com>
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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@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@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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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