Hello Dierk,
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 at 22:45:50 GMT +0100 (which was 1:45 PM
where I live) witnesses say Dierk Haasis typed:
> Yip, when I tried it I - luckily - made it this way. So I could see
> that the mass mailing option still needs some work-over. To be
> specific: I want those messages not only with the QT but the actual
> AB templates (for personality).
I'm not sure I follow what you mean. You are *completely* defining
the message to be sent to any given individual in the QT. How could
TB alter that message to include aspects of your AB templates?
Having said that, you can make it more variable by using some creative
QT handles and using the %ABxxxPPP macros. For example, define a
couple of QT's for greetings called "greet-business", "greet-personal"
and "greet-".
Now in your AB, use some unused field and fill in "business " or
"personal " or nothing depending on which of the three templates you
want to use. Now in your Mass Mailing QT, use %ABtoXXX to access that
field. I'm going to assume you use the MEMO field. The end result
looks like: %QINCLUDE="greet-%ABtoMEMO"
Change the "greet-" part to reflect the different parts of your
message (eg. Signature, Quote-style, etc.)
You can also use regular expressions to get some flexibility too. For
example, I have the following greeting macro so that I get "Hi ..." if
you're in my address book, and "Hello ..." if you're not.
<example>
%SETPATTREGEXP="(?(?=Hi\s;;)Hi\s;;(.*)|(.*);;)"%REGEXPMATCH="Hi %ABtoFIRSTNAME;;Hello
%TOFNAME"%SUBPATT="2",
</example>
> And you have to either enter text in the editor (try your computer by
> opening a mass mailing with 1500 addressees in the editor!) or make
> individual QT beforehand for every mailing that is different; the
> last method obviously intended.
Yep. The only way to make things slightly better is to define the
main message part of the template in an external file and use the
%INCLUDE macro to insert it into the QT. So now you don't have to
edit the *whole* template every time. You only have to edit the
variable part. Depending on the complexity of your template, this may
be worthwhile.
--
Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
Using The Bat! 1.48f
under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
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