Ummm...there are plenty of ways of doing this - you don't need a
mail server to do this. It's a mail server not a word processor.
Try writing something in perl on either nt or unix or
really in any other language that has odbc support.
Or write a few line shell script on a unix box...;)
EEjack
At 03:32 PM 7/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone seen the facilities within IMail to have "variables", that are
>queries again an odbc source maybe. Here's an example of what I mean. Say
>someone is sending out a mailing to all their customers:
>
>Dear #FirstName#,
> We have released a new version of MailServerDeluxe, according to our
>records you are still running #ProudctVersion#.
>
>(now for the part I know IMail doesn't do, but I would like if it did :)
>
># IF $Date - PurchaseDate < 60 then "Since you have owned this product less
>than 60 days, this is a free upgrade!" else "You can purchase the update
>for $99 on our web site"#
>
>The second half may be a bit overboard, but I would at least like to be
>able to include variables without having to write a mail handler.
>
>Best Regards.
>
>Jonathan
>
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