I hope this helps you with mail merge solutions.Performing a Mail Merge is a great way to generate personalized letters or emails. I have saved myself a lot of trouble by doing it this way.Īfter years of doing the mail merge this way, I am dumbfounded why I still have to use third party software on a mac for this simple operation. Under Message/ Deliver Mode, select Send Later if you want to view email for possible errors before sending. Then, go to File/mail merge and you will then see a pup-up. This is useful if you send the same letter style regularly.

When you are finished with the letter, you can save it as a template. After installing Thunderbird's add-on, I create the email with the 'To' field as, (again, be sure to have two brackets on each side.). I create my list in Pages (can also be done with Excel) for Mac with headers for NAME and EMAIL and save it as a. One solution I have found and use daily is the mail merge add-on function in Thunderbird (free mail app from Mozilla). So please, please, please, put this simple feature back, please. One last thought, I really think lacking this feature is a complete stupidity. So if anyone has used this please let me know the pros and cons. I just don't want to spend another $60 to be disappointed again. There is one more solution I have not tried and that is MaxBulk Mailer SE. Three AppStore apps, one would stop the entire process if there was a faulty email and I would have to start over, but I would not know at which point in the list to start from, another that would not support attachments and another that would not support text formatting, so my email signature looked like an old typewriter font.

As you can tell from what I wrote, this is not what I am trying to do.Ģ.

First, I know how to create a mail merge document in Pages from Numbers with the Pages Data Merge app. Over a decade ago I could get this done in with Word and Outlook on Windows 7 and though I find OS X light years ahead on many levels, there is this one feature I find tremendously valuable is unfortunately missing and I have struggled with for years.ġ. Intention = Send several hundred emails to several hundred people, all individually addressed with 'Hello FIRSTNAME,' then bla, bla attached is (your monthly newsletter or whatever I want to attach), with my email signature included. I have tried a few applications from the AppStore, but I find them mostly problematic and not a real solution.

I am desperately trying to find an email solution to email my clients within OS X Yosemite.

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