Re: Mail merge and databases...

From: Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 15:51:15 CEST

AbiWord is capable of mail merging with CSV "databases". We haven't
hooked it up to any "real" databases, like MySql, Postgres, Oracle,
etc.

So the solution would be to export a query as a CSV file and then
merge with that.

Cheers,
Dom

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:23 AM, zed <zed@zed.net.nz> wrote:
>
> OS = LinuxMINT v4.0
> AbiWord = v2.4.6
>
> I have just started using AbiWord and, so far, find it more than adequate
> for my needs.
>
> Later this year, I will be needing to use Mail merge, to write to
> customers. Can anyone on the list suggest a database application, or a
> database engine + a good front end, which is easy to set up and use with
> the AbiWord Merge mail facility.
>
> Regards from New Zealand on a very wet Tuesday evening.
>
> Zed
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