Mail Merge and sending attachments to Gmail instead of Outlook

[bearcub]

I'm presently working at Salesforce in San Francisco and there was mail merge tool in google docs that is no longer supported by the company. Is there a way to create a mail merge from GMail (SFDC doesn't use Outlook - it uses GMail for all internal communications). I know you can send attachments etc from Outlook but does can you write code to send a document to GMail instead?

Thank you for your help.

 

[alansidman]

http://learnexcelmacro.com/wp/2011/12/how-to-send-an-email-using-excel-macro-from-gmail-or-yahoo/

 

[Macropod]

Provided you have Outlook installed (even if it's not used), you can perform an email merge - all a mailmerge needs to send the output to email is an installed mapi driver.

 

[bearcub]

What is a mapi driver, sorry, not very familiar with these things.

Thank you Alan for the link, I will pass this along. However, this would be a good starting point for them.

 

[alansidman]

MAPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPI