Hello perl monks,

Lately, at work, I've had to send a series of personalized emails to groups of people; essentially form letters. The personalized data comes from an Access database and I've cut and pasted the relevant records into each persons email, an incredible waste of time.

I'd like to automate this with Perl. If I was working from home (Linux) this would be fairly trivial. At work, however, I'm forced to use Win98. I can pull the data I need from Access using WIN32::ODBC. The question is: how to I send the emails? Is there a a windows counterpart to sendmail? Ideally, I'd like to create a simple email template system that would output to individual emails. I would appreciate any advice.

Thanks for your time.

Sergej

In reply to Email form letters by sz

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