Add a variable for email without the domain name.

[DanKaplanSES]

Why we need it

Many of the email addresses I send emails to have no first or last name, just the email address. If all I know about someone's personal details are their name, like abc123@def.com, there isn't a good option to email them in bulk.

1. I could skip the "Dear __," line, but that looks impersonal.
2. I could start the emails with "Dear abc123@def.com," but that doesn't seem normal. If someone emailed me like that, I'd think it was an automated message.
3. I could choose to email each one individually, starting each email with "Dear abc123,"; this is inefficient.

What we need

If I only have an email address, I'd like to be able to start abc123@def.com's email with "Dear abc123,". If/when this is implemented, there are a a lot of desirable improvements that could be added next (perhaps as separate issue(s)).

• [x] The ability to define general purpose capitalization rules. That is, "Dear abc123," is nice, but "Dear Abc," would be even better. Maybe hyphens should be replaced with spaces, and the next alphabetic character should be capitalized.
• [x] It would be nice to have fallbacks. That is, sometimes I do have the first/last name associated with an email. In that scenario, it might be best to use it. But if it doesn't exist, using the email (without the domain name) would be better than a blank.

[ghinda]

You can now do all of this with template helpers: https://help.briskine.com/category/template-helpers/

Get the first part of an email address: {{lookup (text "name@email.com" "split" "@") 0}}

Capitalize it: {{capitalize (lookup (text "name@email.com" "split" "@") 0)}}

Replace hyphens from name: {{text (lookup (text "full-name@email.com" "split" "@") 0) "replace" "-" " "}}

Fallbacks: {{or to.first_name "default first name"}}