I know it's not 100% related to coding, but there is plenty of knowledgeable folks here, someone may know the answer.
I need to send a mass email (270 recipients) and each email needs to contain a pull from Excel sheet, containing data related to people that report to each recipient. So one recipient would get an email with 3-4 people, while the other recipient would get email with 10-15 different data points (like name, DOB, etc.)
I tried mail merge but it just sends multiple emails with separated data points for each person to each recipient (each recipient gets 10-15 emails related to 10-15 different people).
If there is a function in MS Office environment - what's it called? If there is resource (YT clip, etc.) would you have a link?
Many, many thanks!
You can automate Outlook from Excel, see Automating Outlook from Other Office Applications for more information. With Outlook object model you may configure whatever you need - reading the range of different cells in Excel and paste that information into the message body according to your needs.
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I have a mailing list on SendGrid that needs to be sent information from a database. This list is quite large and it would take days to manually transfer all the data and make 5000 separate PDF's from our excel spreadsheet.
Additionally, each email sent would need to have the specific PDF for that specific person in the mailing list. Each PDF would contain different information depending on the person's details.
How do I go about personalising each email from a generic template (e.g. Hi ____ etc.) and send dynamic attachments to each of the people on the mailing list that corresponds to their data?
I have tried to import data from excel into PDF's but am having trouble with this.
I have a relatively simple knowledge of coding and am not sure how I would go about making the email personalised and be able to send a dynamic attachment for each recipient.
Is there a way to manage reservations of Outlook resources like resource1#example.com entirely through email? I know that it is easily managed through Outlook by creating new Appointments and Meetings and then inviting the resource's email address.
These features look a lot like sending an email though. Is there a way to skip Outlook entirely and reserve resources using only regular email? Maybe some kind of formatted HTML or XML in the message body?
This would allow us to book resources from anywhere, like from Linux boxes without Outlook, workflows in SharePoint, or even in browser in ymail or gmail.
Sure, if you configure the mailbox to accept the meeting requests automatically. A meeting request is nothing but an iCal invitation.
We have a few Google Forms as part of my work. I am using the Form Emailer script so that, when someone fills out the quiz, that person and also a person here in our office will receive an e-mail displaying a summary of their responses.
We just had a meeting and so many more people are filling them out right now. My question is, what is the daily e-mail limit when sending in this way, a custom form script?
Keeping in mind that two e-mails are being sent with each form completion, one to our person and one to the person that filled it out.
I tried to research this but I am getting conflicting information--some sites list the limit using Gmail, for example, but I don't think this is the same thing?
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
The limit will depend on the account type that is sending the emails. Since you are sending a message to a respondent (1) and a monitor (1), each of your mails will count as 2 recipients.
Your daily limit will be 100 or 1500 per day.
A script can test your remaining limit by calling MailApp.getRemainingDailyQuota().
Ref Quota Limits tab.
We have been using iContact for Salesforce to send our company's mass emails for a couple years. We typically have low bounce rates (1-2%) and are consistently sending large numbers of emails (30,000 - 40,000 total sends per month, spread across 10-20 different emails).
Earlier this year, we launched a new product (The Outcomes Survey), and I created a new HTML email template for it with unique branding for the new product. Every time we send an email with this new template, the bounce rates are in excess of 15% (even though it's sent to the same group of contacts we send our typical emails to, and comes from the same email address).
When I pull a bounce report, most of the diagnostic codes are: "spam-related (554 rejected due to spam content)"
I have run the email template itself through several online spam tests, and it comes out clean. As far as I am able to tell, there's nothing in inherently wrong with the email. You can see a sample email here.
When we send emails using our original company branding and template, our bounce rates are low. Any email sent with The Outcomes Survey branding, bounce rates jump up again.
I'm stumped!
I was able to solve the problem by recreating the email from another template that has worked in the past. So, I guess there was some code in the original HTML email template that was causing problems, although I wish I knew what it was!
Please help!
I work for a telecoms company, everyday I receive stacks of emails from our ISP notifying me a customer is about to exceed there broadband data allowance. I am then required to contact each customer manually and inform them of the situation and advise a recommended solution.
The problem is this is they are coming in quicker than I can contact customers.
What I would like to do is automate this process (The email from the ISP can not be forwarded as it contains confidential information).
The system would need to extract/scrape the following data:
Telephone number, current data usage, data reset date.
This extracted data would need to be extracted into an email template.
It gets trickier - Now the system would need to establish which customer to send this email too!
The only way to identify a customer from the information contained in the email is the telephone number. I guess I would need to create a directory with each telephone number and associated customer email address.
Is this impossible to achieve? How would you guys go about achieving something like this? Any advice would be massively appreciated - In fact you would be a life saver.
Thanks,
Chris
we do something similar in an add-on to Microsoft Outlook we've made to manage projects and service calls (Invantive Vision). How it technically works is as follows:
the HTML variant of the email is sent to a webservice from within the Outlook add-in;
the webservice sends it to a stored procedure in the database;
the stored procedure searches and looks especially at the email address (since it seems more unique, many companies have a central telephone number with maybe 1.000 people behind it);
the stored procedure queries the customers and persons database;
it chooses a template in HTML with tags;
the tags are filled based upon the data found;
the results are given back for human validation.
Please note that the results do not have to be 100%; it will never be possible since people share telephone numbers and email addresses and might make typos. But 99% is reasonable and during the human validation phase the employee can correct and choose a different customer when necessary.
Sometimes 100% hits are possible in other scenarios. In that case we just archive the email on a project and let the system do everything automatically in the database.
Anyway, the crux is to bring the email to the data and let some type of stored procedure do the hard work and maybe sending and/or composing mail.