Email Invoices

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:15:02AM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:
> 
> > I did look into what it takes to have gnucash be able
> > to email out invoices, but there is not yet any
> > easy/simple/painless way to add this feature to gnucash yet.  This 
> > has been discussed in the desktop-devel (gnome/kde) mailing lists.
> 
> Well, we can just assume "/usr/lib/sendmail -bt" is available and
> feed it the outgoing email.  ;)
> 
> Better yet, make that a configuration parameter...
> 
> IMHO the hard part is generating the MIME message and including the
> PDF (or HTML) of the invoice.

Yes, well, that, and also asking the user what subject line to use, 
and asking them if they want to compose a cover letter to explain the
attachment, and helping them choose the list of email addreesses out
of thier address-book, and then remembering those addresses so that 
we can re-use them next time ...

Yes, hacking in crappy email support is not hard, but 'doing it right' 
is a lot more work.

--linas


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