Developers of Sympa

[Olivier LACROIX <address@concealed>]

Dans son message, "Gildas PERROT" ecrivait :
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*> > -----Message d'origine-----
*> > De : Olivier LACROIX [mailto:address@concealed]
*> > Envoyé : vendredi 19 octobre 2001 17:48
*> > À : Gildas PERROT
*> > Cc : Sympa-dev
*> > Objet : Re: [sympa-dev] New feature in Sympa : personalization of
*> > dynamic content ?
*> >
*> >
*> >
*> > Dans son message, "Gildas PERROT" ecrivait :
*> > ----------------------------------------------
*> >
*> > *> Hi,
*> > *>
*> > *> I would like to know if you expect to allow Sympa to support
*> > the possibility
*> > *> to send personalized e-mail, customizing messages according to the
*> > *> recipient's profile (name, age, etc.)
*> > *> If not, what sofware would you suggest me, please ?
*> > *>
*> >
*> > Hello.
*> >
*> > Sympa is not designed for commercial mailing lists like "I want
*> > to send an
*> > advertising to all children for a new game" or "I want to send another
*> > advertising to all women for a new parfume". There are already
*> > too many servers
*> > that are used for spams. Please, do not make sympa as a new
*> > spamming software
*> > !!
*> 
*> 
*> Sorry Olivier, my aim is not to spam (sympa is not necessary for that ;-).
*> Subscribers would be voluntary so we can't talk about spam here ! On the
*> contrary, personnalisation of the list of recipients and of the contents
*> would make emails more pertinent. So, does anyone have some constructive
*> answer ?

So a constructive answer : actually it's not possible to send a mail with a 
profile. But by using SQL queries on a database (see 13.2.4 include_sql_query 
in the documentation), you can create many lists with criterions on the 
subscribers.


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