[NBLUG/talk] Looking for software...

[Mark Street]

Oh well so much for making a little dough on the side,

In Mailman the keywords are "personalization" in the list config Non-Digest 
Options there is a user personalization option, set this to yes.  you may 
have to turn this functionality in main mailman site config in mailman's data 
dir.

Now, you need to make sure each members name is in the membership portion of 
your list.  With the newer mailman's you optionally enter your name when you 
sign up.  This is the field that will be placed into the header of the 
message, you may only want the first name though so only put the first name 
in the field.

I haven't checked how many lines of text can be placed in the message header 
box... but hey, its open source, make it handle more if you want.

Personalization puts a larger overhead on your machine in order to personalize 
so beware - each message has to .

In the message header insert the variable in Non-Digest options place;

Dear %(user_name)s,

We blah blah blah.

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:52, Christopher Wagner wrote:
> I'm using mailman but couldn't find any way to store the person's name
> along with the email address so that I can have their name as a string
> inside the email message. You know, like:
>
> --
> Dear {$name},
>
> 	We would like to introduce our new ...
> --
>
> As far as the spam thing, I'm not sure you quite understand what I'm
> going for.  I'm trying to make sure that the messages that are actually
> sent to the customer don't look like spam (so content filtering systems
> like SA don't flag them as spam).
>
> - Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> Mark Street
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 12:39 PM
> To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,
> etc.
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Looking for software...
>
>
> Why do you need to send out multipart messages?
> Regardless, this could be done easily with mailman mailing list manager.
>
> I guess you don't trust the files your marketing manager is providing to
> this marketing campaign... for the spam and AV scanning, amavisd-new,
> spamassassin, clamav.
>
> I am free this Friday, I could have you up within the day.  Just point
> me
> at the Linux server. ; )
>
> Christopher Wagner said:
> > Ok folks..  This one has had me stumped for quite awhile and I haven't
> > found an adequate solution.  What I'm trying to do isn't all that
> > complicated:
> >
> > First, to make this clear, we have a list of people who have
>
> explicitly
>
> > expressed interest in receiving information about the products my
> > company has to offer.  Hence, this is *NOT* for sending UCE.  I just
> > want to make sure no one thinks I'm spamming. :)
> >
> > What we're trying to do is to send a single email out to a couple
> > hundred customers on our mailing list.  We are looking for an email
> > program that will provide us with the ability to put a variable in the
> > message for something like the customers first name.  We want to be
>
> able
>
> > to personalize it for the customer.  In additon, it might be nice to
> > have the program do some sanity checks on the email message being
> > released, ie: check the email for any Rich Text or HTML flaws, make
>
> sure
>
> > there's a plain text portion, and possibly run it through spamassassin
> > first before letting it be sent.  I'd like to make this as easy for
>
> our
>
> > customers to receive and view as possible, while still managing to
> > satisfy my marketing manager.
>
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