Personalized e-mail.

To use the info from the address book you need to use the ABnnnPPP macro.
Values for nnn are To, From, Reply, OTo, OFrom and OReply
Values are among others: Name, FirstName, Birthday, Country
For a full listing see TB's help file: Macros/Full alphabetic list of macros

You'd need something like %ABToFirstName, but that'll only give you the first name of the first recipient.

If I read you correctly you want to use the names for all intended recipents. To do that you'll need a recursive template that picks all addressees.

Lucky for you a kind guy called Robin Anson wrote a template like that and had it added to the "Macro and sollutions library" at our official FAQ. This is a link straight to the template: http://cgi.silverstones.com/library.php#greet_all_recipients
Save the quick template on that page between your own quick templates and use the name "Greet_All_Recipients", as it is a recursive template it'll call itself so unless you go rewriting the thing yourself that name is important.
In your regular templates you use %QT("Greet_All_Recipients") to call the template.

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JP Hendriks Beginner Posts: 12 Points: 9 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 09 May 2005	#1 0 15 July 2006 09:13:13 Hello, Just I question. Suppose I write a mail to Anna, Bert and Caroline. Can I create one message that "expands" to: Hello Anna, Hello Bert, Hello Caroline, for instance using something like Hello $FIRSTNAME, using the info from the address book? Thanks, JP.

Roelof Otten Guru Posts: 2963 Points: 5336 Rating: 60 Authority: 60 Joined: 19 September 2004	#2 0 15 July 2006 14:38:19 To use the info from the address book you need to use the ABnnnPPP macro. Values for nnn are To, From, Reply, OTo, OFrom and OReply Values are among others: Name, FirstName, Birthday, Country For a full listing see TB's help file: Macros/Full alphabetic list of macros You'd need something like %ABToFirstName, but that'll only give you the first name of the first recipient. If I read you correctly you want to use the names for all intended recipents. To do that you'll need a recursive template that picks all addressees. Lucky for you a kind guy called Robin Anson wrote a template like that and had it added to the "Macro and sollutions library" at our official FAQ. This is a link straight to the template: http://cgi.silverstones.com/library.php#greet_all_recipients Save the quick template on that page between your own quick templates and use the name "Greet_All_Recipients", as it is a recursive template it'll call itself so unless you go rewriting the thing yourself that name is important. In your regular templates you use %QT("Greet_All_Recipients") to call the template. __________________________________ I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.