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Mail labels and letter templates for jasperreports

The following are free (MIT license) mailing labels and letter templates for jasperreports that you can download and use in jasperserver and/or ireport: Update 3/15/2011 : I moved the Mail templates zip file here . Please consider making a small donation if the templates are of help to you, Thank you! If you need more information on how to use those templates please leave a comment in the blog.
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Send Email from C# using Outlook's COM late binding

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