Bug 433099

Summary:	personalized mass mail function, serial e-mails individualized
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Rüdiger <linux>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	montel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Manjaro
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Rüdiger 2021-02-17 18:01:15 UTC

SUMMARY
Kontact is an unknown but great PMI. It would be great to have a module or function for personalized mass e-mail. It means sending step by step delayed serial e-mails with individuell addresses taken from a selected address book. 
Secondly the address book should allow different tags, too. For example, some of the contacts would like to get only Christmas greetings but some also a newsletter information (seldomly). 
Thirdly you may set a tag and than select a tag that some of them are addressed by the first name, some by there family name. 
Than fourthly you could also use a personalized salutation.
I have this function in a very old and simple CRM system but I want to migrate to a new program.

It seems that thunderbird offers a plugin like this. It is called "mail merge". I have to check it.
https://addons.thunderbird.net/de/thunderbird/addon/mail-merge/

I am sure a lot of people were interested in such a feature. I would need this for our newsletter non-profit sports club.

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SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.13-2-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2021-02-18 06:18:40 UTC

Yep I started it long time ago.
I think it's time for me to rework on it.
Regards

Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2021-02-18 06:22:30 UTC

Git commit 6dc764fbb222e789a9920541c77ac1b7cd8d6e5b by Laurent Montel.
Committed on 18/02/2021 at 06:21.
Pushed by mlaurent into branch 'master'.

Time to continue to implement mail merge

M  +1    -2    kmail/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
A  +0    -0    kmail/plugins/mailmergeplugin/CMakeLists.txt

https://invent.kde.org/pim/kdepim-addons/commit/6dc764fbb222e789a9920541c77ac1b7cd8d6e5b

Comment 3 Rüdiger 2021-02-18 08:57:11 UTC

That sounds great. Do you have any plan when it will be finished? If you need someone test maybe I can help you.

Maybe something like a pop-up should appear always in Kmail or contact as well for the other components, if a new valued function is implemented. Otherwise how should people know about new great things!

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2021-02-19 05:55:16 UTC

(In reply to Rüdiger from comment #3)
> That sounds great. Do you have any plan when it will be finished? If you
> need someone test maybe I can help you.

For the moment I reactivate code, clean up code etc.
So not idea but I work on it :)


> 
> Maybe something like a pop-up should appear always in Kmail or contact as
> well for the other components, if a new valued function is implemented.
> Otherwise how should people know about new great things!

We have it in kmail (we have a page in kmail which can display new features)
I will update it

Comment 5 Rüdiger 2021-02-19 09:36:18 UTC

Fine. But if I look in any menu, I cannot find a link "new features"??

Maybe I should sugget to "Kontact" developers to implement a pop-up function for new features. The best product has no value, if nobody knows about it.

How do you think?

Comment 6 Laurent Montel 2021-02-19 11:02:35 UTC

(In reply to Rüdiger from comment #5)
> Fine. But if I look in any menu, I cannot find a link "new features"??
> 
> Maybe I should sugget to "Kontact" developers to implement a pop-up function
> for new features. The best product has no value, if nobody knows about it.
> 
> How do you think?

nope as we removed this type of dialog as it's was old UI style.
We have a "info" page in kmail for it.
not necessary to create a dialog for it.

Comment 7 Rüdiger 2021-02-19 11:51:42 UTC

I am using Kmail within Kontact. 

The information is pretty hided in the Tab Help, the last link:
- introduction into kmail.
This link should be moved in the first block below "Kontact introduction" as "Kmail introduction"

And I believe it is better to have another link in Help:
"About Kmail & What's new", if Kmail is active respectively for the other components.

But it is up to you. Thanks anyway.