218624 - Serial letter functionality based on Address Book data

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Mohr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.2

A mail merge feature should be added to Mozilla, so that I can give a list of
email addresses, and use something like "<display_name>" to insert the display
name corresponding to the email address in the address book.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Are you just looking for the Mailing List feature that is already present in the
Addressbook?

I don't see the point of your feature request, because the list function can be
used for the task you are describing.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

this is what address book mailing lists are designed for.

Comment 3

[Felix Senn]

Comment #1 is not the answer for the feature request.

The meaning was:
  A serial letter feature should be added to Mozilla/Thunderbird. 

The idea is, that it should be possible to write personalized mails to a bunch
of people without changing every mail by hand.

Example: 
1.) Write a message like:
      Hello <name.first> <name.last>, how do you do.
2.) Select 2 or more persons from adress book
3.) Click: Send mail
4.) Mozilla will replace the tags <name...> by the persons real name (using
adress book entry)

Comment 4

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Reopening. Changing summary to be more descriptive.

Related: Bug 178263

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

triaging