Ajado

I am using 37signals product Highrise as my CRM and Thunderbird together with MailMerge to send out messages to multiple people.

The problem with this combination: MailMerge does not support the default BCC-mails you can define in your account settings and which you need for Highrise. Since there have been requests for this feature and nothing happened so far, here's a quick and dirty way to do it:

After you install MailMerge, go into your Thunderbird profile directory (on a Mac it's ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/[username]). In there you'll find the extension installed in the directory extensions/mailmerge@example.net/

Inside the extension directory open the content/thunderbird/overlay.js and around line 120 you'll find where the mail is created:

mailmergeOverlay.compose(to[i], "", "", subject, body, attachments);

first parameter is the "to", second "cc" and the third "bcc". Add your mail to the "bcc" and save the file:

mailmergeOverlay.compose(to[i], "", "dropbox@[myhighriseidentifier].highrisehq.com", subject, body, attachments);

Do the same in content/seamonkey/overlay.js if you're using SeaMonkey. Restart Thunderbird and you're ready to go.

Remember to do that every time you upgrade the plugin. You can't define different bcc's for different accounts with this approach. As I said it's quick and dirty and thanks in advance to the geniuses behind MailMerge to implement the feature soon :)