One drawback of this add on, ver 1.3.1 working with Thunderbird ver 3.1.4, is it does not allow embedded pictures to be transmitted.

But if your database is large I would suggest that you specify the ' Start' & ' Stop' containing the record numbers to limit the output of emails being sent at any given time. If your database is small then leave other entries as you see them & then click on 'Ok'. In this window you will have to click on ' Browse' push button to select the file which contains your database. You will get a window which looks like this (see below) Now to send the email click on ' File' in the Menu bar (seen below) & then click on 'Personal Mail' You can try out any permutation and combination but remember that if you have a column in your database, you can place its contents in your email at a location of your choice. You will probably only use the recipient’s name and email address, so your template might just include which will appear as The control characters use double braces, and you can define any fields you want - just place their field names in the first line of the CSV. You create a message template, with control codes in place of the fields you wish to include, then link the template to a comma-separated-value file (CSV) populated with your intended recipients. The ' Personal Mail' feature is far more like a traditional paper mail-merge. This is all done without special preparation beforehand the extension adds a button labeled Mass Mail to the toolbar you compose your mail as usual, then click on Mass Mail to perform the split. 'Mass Mail' allows you to create a draft email, put your intended recipients in the To:, CC:, and BCC: fields, then automatically split the draft into a set of identical copies with one addressed to each recipient. It supports two features, dubbed Mass Mail and Personal Mail. The Mail Merge extension is compatible with the latest Thunderbird 3.0.* releases, and is cross-platform. ' MailMerge' is a Thunderbird extension designed by Alexander Bergmann.

(I have not included the instructions here). I have also used the add-on called ' MailMerge'.įirst install the latest ver of Thunderbird & configure the email a/c.

This is a tutorial to use the email merge thru Thunderbird 3.1.4 or later (Can be found here ).

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