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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] How to do a mailing with Kmail?
From:       Bill Anderson <bill-kdepim () noreboots ! com>
Date:       2006-12-15 1:22:37
Message-ID: 200612150122.06861.bill-kdepim () noreboots ! com
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> > BTW, I maintain a couple of mailing list that employ DADA Mail as the
> > list manager. All mail is sent directly to each individual user -- no
> > Bcc involved.
>
> Yes, some list software does that.  I'm not sure it's good for the state of
> the 'net, 

As an email (Postfix) engineer for a rather large financial firm, I don't see 
how it is bad in any way for email systems. While you could have 10 "atomic" 
emails sent to a domain instead of one, and if you do virus scanning/etc. you 
could wind up scanning/analyzing it 10 times instead of one, you also have 
the ability to scale that over multiple deliveries and thus multiple servers.

That's the extent of the difference: domains with multiple recipients will see 
multiple "copies" of the message - 1 per recipient instead of a single 
message with multiple envelope recipients.

Now my turn ...  To me the correct tool would be a word process with mail 
merge. IIRC, KWord can access KMail's address book as a data source. IMO this 
type of ability is best served by having KWord have an "email merge" option 
that talks to KMail for us and handles the needfuls for either turning the 
open document into the body of an email or an attached file.

The non-spam commercial world does indeed use the ability to send an email to 
multiple recipients them each shown as the sole recipient. In these cases it 
is usually done with expensive "Client Relationship Management" systems or 
marketing systems that do this. Often this is the only use of the system. 
Seems to me a nice win for KOffice to provide this ability. It could be done 
in KWord as mentioned above using a KMail address source (or LDAP, etc..)  
using DCOP/D-BUS and for sending the actual mail.

Alternatively a new app that was essentially a wrapper around KWord and KMail 
would be a decent addition to the suite. 

In case anyone is wondering, OpenOffice.org 2.0 seems to have an Email merge 
option. It doesn't have KAddressbook support, but supports a decent variety 
of other options including csv. One could relatively easily obtain a csv dump 
of the KAddressbook addresses and use it. It will allow you send your 
document as HTML, PDf, HTML, Text, etc.. I just tried it and it worked 
beautifully. No, it isn't a pure KOffice solution, but it does work.

Cheers,
Bill
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