How do I send campaign emails without last names?

[HunGery]

Hi,

I imported our email newsletter list to Sugar to send future newsletters with it.
The subscribers became tartgets and I put them into a target list. The problem
is that we do not know the first and last name of the subscribers, but the last
name is required. Therefore I used the same string for every subscriber in the
import process. That's fine but when I try to send the newsletter, Sugar puts
the first and last name infront of the email address, like this:

John Doe <johndoe@acme.com>

And of course, this is not good for us, because we don't have the names.

Is there a way to tell Sugar not to put ANYTHING but the email address into
the To: field?

Thanks,
Gergely Karpati

[michaelest]

Open up Sugar->Modules->EmailMan->EmailMan.php

Find this line (around line 595 in mine, v4.5.1e):
$mail->AddAddress($module->email1, $module->first_name . ' ' . $module->last_name);

Edit this line by removing the firstname and lastname variables. When you're done, the line will look like this:
$mail->AddAddress($module->email1);

Upload the revised EmailMan.php file to the /modules/EmailMan directory on your server.

Try it out. Email should not be addressed with firstname lastname. It should only have the address in the To: field.

good luck.

- Michael

[HunGery]

Thanks a lot Michael, your solution works fine!
Great help!

Thanks,
Gergely Karpati