# Mail merge from Address Book to email on Mac? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 4, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-merge-from-address-book-to-email-on-mac/541860 "2010-06-04T00:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-merge-from-address-book-to-email-on-mac/541860/1 "2010-06-04T00:57:36Z")
Anyone know of software to do a “mail merge” using the Adress Book as the source and Mail.app as the destination, on the Mac? Pages will do a mail merge from the Address Book, but I want to create about twenty emails rather than letters. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-merge-from-address-book-to-email-on-mac/541860/2 "2010-06-04T05:04:48Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Anyone know of software to do a “mail merge” using the Adress Book as the source and Mail.app as the destination, on the Mac? Pages will do a mail merge from the Address Book, but I want to create about twenty emails rather than letters. Here’s a shareware program for $10 that says it can do this: [http://www.objectivelabs.com/mailmergeapp.php](http://www.objectivelabs.com/mailmergeapp.php) I have no personal experience with this program…just pointing you to it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-merge-from-address-book-to-email-on-mac/541860/3 "2010-06-04T12:58:43Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > Here’s a shareware program for $10 that says it can do this: > > [http://www.objectivelabs.com/mailmergeapp.php](http://www.objectivelabs.com/mailmergeapp.php) > I have no personal experience with this program…just pointing you to it. I’ll try it out. My search hadn’t turned it up, and the ones I did find either incorporated their own mail senders and were full-fledged bulk emailer programs, which I did not need, or were hobbyware that had not been updated in four years. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-merge-from-address-book-to-email-on-mac/541860/4 "2010-06-04T13:54:39Z")
Filemaker (and probably Bento) can do this. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-merge-from-address-book-to-email-on-mac/541860/5 "2010-06-04T14:04:48Z")
You could also do this with Applescript, but it’s probably worth the $10 to just buy a solution… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-merge-from-address-book-to-email-on-mac/541860/6 "2010-06-04T14:38:25Z")
Okay, it sort of worked. Set up a template, it made the merge and let me check the output… but it never attached the attachment I selected. Now I’m going to have to resend by hand. On the other hand, that won’t take as long because I can just resend the sent messages. But still…