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Reviews for Mail Merge
230 reviews for this add-on
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great job, but I have 2 problems:
- even when i am offline, I often have "an error occurred while writing in the folder" and it stops, so I have to start again from the beginning, and it will work on the 2,3,... attempt
2- I am in France, my file are in "Unicode (UTF-8)", you do not propose it so the names with special characters coming from files are properly shown
Would be great to have some help on these questions.
Take care
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This is undoubtedly an EXCELLENT addon - used it now for a number of months. Well done Alexander, you are a star ..HOWEVER, my system just auto-updated the Thunderbird program, and now whenever I send a mailmerge out, if the outgoing mailmerge is interrupted by an incoming email (ie sometimes sending to a user who has an OutOfOffice reply), then the mailmerge simply stops and there is no way to restart it without exiting the program (delete all users on the address book already been sent an email) and restart it .
As we have 500+ addresses, I needed to restart this 4 times!
This never used to happen - will an update fix this or what can I do? Many thanks
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is an EXCELLENT Add-on that I use to send emails to my various organizations. With the increasing paranoia of ISPs discarding email they think are spam. Sending individual emails are a way to ensure emails go through.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Hi Alex,
When we have an incident (Network router or bad adress or ...) then the module stop. So can you make an option to restart automatically the process at the latest adress and if the problem continue after 2 attemps, then the module bypass the adress in default and continue with the next email adress.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fantastisch, kann mich dem/der Vorredner*in nur anschließen, seit ich es beherrsche, läuft es super. Ich hatte extra alles auf Brevo eingerichtet, damit ich "professionell" versenden kann - und dann festgestellt, dass es mit Mailmerge doch viel besser läuft. Ich checke mailadressen vorher bei ZeroBounce (leider nicht DSGVO-konform), aber dann verschicke ich hunderte und tausende Mails mit Mailmerge.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Ein sehr gutes Addon, das hervorragend funktioniert. Nach einer Einarbeitung will man es nicht mehr hergeben. Wer eine gute Erklärung für das Addon sucht: <https://code-bude.net/2016/11/04/serienmails-mit-thunderbird-erstellen/>
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (10.4.0).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very effective add-on, which is at the same time very easy to use (thanks for the very clear and detailed instructions) and very powerful if need be. Batch mailing to my students – including personalized e-mails – is really made a breeze with MailMerge!
I really would like to thank the developper by making a contribution, but I cannot find any information on this (and I have looked hard!) Is there a Paypal page or contribution page somewhere that I missed?
Sincerely,
Christophe T (France)
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
A really useful add-on if you want to send out personalised mail to a list. It's pretty straightforward to use.
I'd appreciate a little more guidance on the syntax for using fields conditionally and for embedding fields.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I finally worked out how to use an Address book... excellent tool!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (10.4.0).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I can't recall if I entered a review when I first started using this excellent add-on several years ago. No matter - it's worth another as I upgrade to TB 115.
I use MailMerge judiciously and selectively, most often to send a customized and personalized informational message to a defined group of people whom I know individually. For me, it's not about mass mailing, but custom mailing.
I saw this recent review which I'll include with credit, because it is spot on.
By Peter Passchier on Sept. 11, 2023 · permalink
This extension is still the top of its game for many years already, and an important reason to stick with Thunderbird as a mail client. As I wrote many years ago, many powerful things are possible using MailMerge, but just being able to send personalized mails to a whole mailinglist is priceless.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very good add on
And very really very nice author
Long life for this add on !
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This extension is still the top of its game for many years already, and an important reason to stick with Thunderbird as a mail client. As I wrote many years ago, many powerful things are possible using MailMerge, but just being able to send personalized mails to a whole mailinglist is priceless.
A few days ago I wrote that this Add-on wasn't doing well, that it was very slow, popping up many different windows when it's run, and that, together with the changes that were forced by the redesign of Thunderbird caused me to be very pessimistic about the future usefulness of this platform. But it turned out that somehow I had ticked the box "Beta" in the settings. The author of this add-on personally reached out to me by email and pointed out that this might be the case. And indeed! Without that box checked, it ran like before, quickly filling my Local Folder's Outbox with generated mails.It took less than a minute to generate some 300 mails with attachments..!
Anyone wanting to do a bit (or a lot!) of automation in sending to a list of people, this is it, highly recommended!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
A fantastic tool! Easy to use, does exactly what it needs to do. Haven't had any problems with it.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (10.1.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
one of the best addons ever
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (10.1.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent module, que je redécouvre bien des années après l'avoir expérimenté pour la première fois !
L'envoi de pièces jointes personnalisées fonctionne à merveille : on peut insérer une variable dans le nom du fichier à joindre pour éviter d'ajouter un champ avec les noms de fichier.
Et l'on peut même utiliser sous Windows un fichier .csv encodé en utf-8, créé par CardBook, excellent module aussi !!
N'hésitez pas à soutenir financièrement les développeurs ;-)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
i use many years, very easy to use and fast my work
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (10.0.0).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Super extension, je m'en sers bcp pour envoyer des mails aux adhérents de l'association pour laquelle je dois communiquer.
Merci ;-)
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Super unimpressed that I went to send an email and mailmerge intercepted that and sent a recipients warning message. Not sure when this change occurred but didn't experience this "feature" until after I upgraded Thunderbird.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (9.6.1).The "Recipients Reminder" and the "Variables Reminder" can be activated and deactivated in the Preferences in the Add-ons Manager.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
All I can say is ... WOW. I used all possible solutions for small mailings, both online or from other email clients, but this plugin beats them all!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (9.6.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very useful addon that we (small enterprise) use regularly. Great support too! Thank you very much!
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