[ic] profile emailing

Tue Nov 13 20:13:00 2001

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:28:30PM -0800, Dan Browning wrote:
> > I've exhausted the archive for a problem that I'm having
> > 
> > my problem/question is... I know that I can create a profile 
> > for a user no problem.
> > 
> > is what I want to do is email those persons via an admin page 
> > to those customers that meet a specific profile.
> > 
> > I've looked at the email tag and email_raw tag but both look 
> > like it emails to a particular user and not a group.
> > 
> > I just want to know if this is possible and for any info that 
> > would send me in a proper direction
> > 
> > 
> > Thx N Adv
> > 
> > 
> > J. Scott Andreas :)
> 
> You can probably without much sweat customize IC to do what you want,
> but I like to think of IC as more of working in tandem with software
> specialized to do what you're talking about (called CRM - Customer
> Relationship Management).  Right now all you want to do is send a
> targeted email to those on your list so you something that can do that
> (IC can with a little customization), but wouldn't you really rather
> have a specialized open source solution that really takes the cake for
> CRM?  

or a perl script,
@users=@{MY SELECT}
for(@users) {
 pipe to qmail
}

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