Dan, You can do what you're wanting using nothing but standard script steps within FMP, _but_ it's a real pain in the butt ... not a beginners task. The more efficient way, by far, is to use one of the commercially available plug-ins. As an example, here's a url for one that's been around for a while:
http://www.fmpro.org/news/177247469698/ There are others. The price of this one is $59 for a single user license. Again, you _can_ do it within FMP's scripting language, but there are limitations about the email program you have to use for sending and, although I'm pretty proficient at FMP scripting, I think I probably worked for about $2/hr when doing exactly what you're talking about for a project of mine. Bill Holt > From: Dan Crutcher <dcrutcher at loumag.com> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:20:59 -0400 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: MacGroup: Filemaker and email > > I have a Filemaker 6 database that contains an "email" field that has > an individual email address in it and a "description" field that > contains a text description of an event. I would like to do a batch > email sending the text in the "description" field in each record to the > email address in the same record. There are approximately 225 records. > > I am trying to avoid having to copy/paste each email address and > description one by one into my email program. > > In searching Filemaker's Help screens, I find a script step called > "send mail" that apparently does something very like what I'm want to > do. Has anyone used this feature or know of another way to quickly and > efficiently broadcast emails from Filemaker, even if it involves > exporting the Filemaker records to something else first? > > I probably would be using OS X's Mail application to do the mailing, > although I also have QuickMail and Entourage available if those would > work better. > > Thanks. > > Dan > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
