On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 10:22 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > On Oct 9, 2020, at 8:47 AM, Reid Thompson via evolution-list 
> > <evolution-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 13:17 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 00:51 +1300, gnome via evolution-list wrote:
> > > > Never said Evolution was anything other than an email client, but I've
> > > > come to expect to see this feature in clients (or at least as a plug
> > > > in) since I've been using it often for the last 6 or 7 years.
> > > 
> > > As I said, I for one have never come across this. It definitely is not
> > > a feature of Evolution, nor of any MUA I'm aware of. Some references to
> > > MUAs that do support it would be useful.
> 
> My understanding of this functionality is that it allows users to create a 
> template for a mass mail event where values (such as recipient names and 
> other recipient-dependent data) are substituted from a data source. It is 
> useful functionality; but it is a bit beyond the capabilities of “just” a MUA 
> because it requires knowledge of the data source.
> 
> BCC could only substitute in the most trivial of use cases.
> 
> It does seem like the sort of functionality that would be a good candidate 
> for a plug-in.

Yes, I see. Well, I'm sure Milan is open to receiving actual code :-)

poc

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