Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 13 November 2008 12:26:18 pm Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > no - my main question is how to do it with kmail so that n00bs can do it. > > But now that the itch has started, I think I will write a gui for this > > script, add some error checking, publish it and become famous. > > Ha ha.

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 13 November 2008 10:41:38 am ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: > I expected you would involve, > > - > from django.core.mail import send_mail > > send_mail('Subject here', 'Here is the message.', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', >     ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]'], fail_silently=False)

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:21:50 Nov 13, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > emailid = address.split(',')[3] > Okay. > no - my main question is how to do it with kmail so that n00bs can do it. But > now that the itch has started, I think I will write a gui for this script, > add some error checking, publish it and become f

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 06:25:53 pm Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> I just finished it in perl. My python skills are very bad. >> >> Here is a way to achieve it in perl. > > In python (most of this shamelessly copi

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Raman.P
--- On Thu, 13/11/08, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > no - my main question is how to do it with kmail so that > n00bs can do it. But > now that the itch has started, I think I will write a gui > for this script, > add some error checking, publish it and become famous. Loo

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 13 November 2008 10:14:09 am Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > I am also unable to find out where you are parsing the file to fish out > the individual addresses from a comma separated list. > I am just assuming a file with one email id per line. In reality of course, the file will be a c

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 09:45:38 Nov 13, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > In python (most of this shamelessly copied from a google search): > Never mind. I do copy paste all the time. ;) As long as we know what we are doing it is not wrong at all, in fact it is most desirable. We are simply following Newton's quote "I

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 06:25:53 pm Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > I just finished it in perl. My python skills are very bad. > > Here is a way to achieve it in perl. In python (most of this shamelessly copied from a google search): #!/usr/bin/env python import smtplib def mail(serverURL=No

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:39:45 Nov 12, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > and get branded as a spammer exposing huge number of ids to everyone? I want > each person to think that I mailed him/her personally > You are right. I use this trick as well. I had forgotten. > I have already mentioned that I know how to do that

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Atanu Datta wrote: > >> What about the mail merge feature in OOo? > > Not the same thing, he is looking at something like > http://mailtweak.mozdev.org/ but for KMail. Just to clarify - you can use OO.o Writer MailMerge to compose the messages for a list of addresses a

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
Atanu Datta wrote: > What about the mail merge feature in OOo? Not the same thing, he is looking at something like http://mailtweak.mozdev.org/ but for KMail. ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of t

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 05:32:59 pm Atanu Datta wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 16:39:45 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > I have already mentioned that I know how to do that. Actually I have a > > bunch of people that I have converted to linux - and I want to show them > > how to do this w

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Atanu Datta
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 16:39:45 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > I have already mentioned that I know how to do that. Actually I have a > bunch of people that I have converted to linux - and I want to show them > how to do this with kmail (or evolution or thunderbird or any gui client) > so that t

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 04:32:55 pm Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Firstly I don't get your question. If you have a fail with mail IDs, > can't you simply copy paste it into the To field of kmail? > > What is stopping you from doing that? and get branded as a spammer exposing huge number of i

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:52:03 Nov 12, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > Hi, > > I have a comma separated file of addresses - how do I use kmail to send a > mail > to all the addresses? (I know how to do it with a python script - but am > feeling lazy) Wow! Laziness is the greatest virtue of a programmer. ;) I canno