[kh99]

Yes, that would work for birthdays. That's what I was thinking a couple of days ago, and I told John if he just wanted something to deal with the birthday emails we could throw together something quick, but since then it's become my understanding that he'd really like to have a more general solution (but maybe I'm wrong about that).

Edit: oh, right - the other thing I was concerned about is that I think some email addresses might have characters that require URI encoding before adding the addreses to a url, so I didn't want to just add it directly. (In particular, I believe '&' is allowed in an email name).