Xmas Card

rctneil · 12 Dec 2009 at 22:35

Hey,
I'm working on getting my yearly email xmas card done for this year and decided that this year I wanted to simplify it by doing it by mail merge and as I DO NOT use outlook, I ahve found a solution that links into thunderbird. Unfortunatley the extension does not work with thunderbird 3 (I ahve tried).

I have therefore temporarily installed thunderbird 2 and the mailtweak extension and activated the "Personalise" tweak and clciked Message > Personalise and open up a blank email, so I type my email and use the fields:

%%name%%
%%email%%
%%forlink%%

and press the "Personalise" button where I choose the csv file I want to use whcih is as follows: (names been removed and replaced by ~)

email.csv:

name, forlink, email
Bob, Bob, ~~~~~.com
Jack Home, JackHome, [email protected]
Jack uni, JackUni, ~~~~~@stu.~~~~.ac.uk

when I preview the result for an email with the contents:

%%name%%
%%email%%
%%forlink%%

I get:

Bob

Nothing else just Bob, so it it seeing the name field and it is obviously seeing the email field as the recipient line is filled in correctly with each persons email address in, but if I try and use %%email%% and %%forlink% in the message then they just appear blank.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

Regards,
Neil

rctneil · 13 Dec 2009 at 13:08

Please can someone try and help

droyden · 13 Dec 2009 at 13:20

Whats the addon?

rctneil · 13 Dec 2009 at 14:22

Sorry, I forgot to add that crucial bit of info into my post, the extension is called Mailtweak!

droyden · 14 Dec 2009 at 09:12

OK, will check today. Which version are you using the beta or stable? (mailtweak-0.16.xpi or mailtweak-1.0pre2.xpi)

rctneil · 14 Dec 2009 at 12:45

it's the mailtweak-1.0.pre2.xpi but used in thunderbird 2 which it says is fully supported!

droyden · 14 Dec 2009 at 21:59

hmm, tried the 0.16 just incase that worked but cant even get as far as you!
Checking http://xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/ifaces/nsIAbCard.html gives a dead link, and then the url it points to is a little vague

droyden · 14 Dec 2009 at 22:02

Maybe worth trying the irc chan? #xul on irc.mozilla.org

rctneil · 14 Dec 2009 at 23:33

I can get it so it opens a blank email and it replaces the SEND button with a PErsonalise button.

I write my email and use the fields that I ahve specified in the csv file in the first line as:

field1, field2, field3

but when i use them like:

%%field1%%
%%field2%%
%%field3%%

It will only replace %%field1%% with it's value from the csv file and leave the other two variables blank!