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. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT 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
Yep I started it long time ago. I think it's time for me to rework on it. Regards
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
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!
(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
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?
(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.
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.