Mail shot

Hi
I'm looking to set up an automator action to send bulk emails - I just have no idea how to do it!
Basically I want the action to do the following:
Get a list of contacts from something like an excel spreadsheet
Create a new mail message for each contact
Insert text from something like a word document.
Attach 2 predefined files
Send off
I want this action to run automatically at a time period i can set (ie every month etc).
Any help?
Tried googling but I havent come up with anything yet.
HELP!
David Swain

None of the standard Automator actions will do this. The *New Mail Message* action doesn't accept variables for the contents, and the *Group Mailer* is designed for sending the same message to a group of people from your Address Book.
This looks like a task for an AppleScript - you might have better luck finding one of those.

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font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
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