There are several examples in the MX-Contact (Base System) Tutorial that demonstrate how to to direct mailing in Section 5 on Direct Marketing. You can download the Base System Tutorial from the Guides page in either On-Line Help (CHM) format or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

MX-Contact Documents > Guides

See Exercise 5.3 of the Video version of the tutorial:

MX-Contact Base System Tutorial - Video

We also recommend you review the following product which seems to work quite well with MX-Contact:

Easy Mail Merge for Outlook

You can do personalised mail merges with attachments, including HTML mailings, and because the mail is sent via Outlook it automatically connects to the contact record.

If you decide to evaluate this product, make sure you mark your MX-Contact folder as an Outlook Address Book, as per the following FAQ:

Setting up the MX-Contact Contacts folder as an Outlook Address Book

We also suggest you download and watch the following short videos:

Video – Personalised Direct E-Mail

Video – Non-Personalised Direct E-Mail

Video – Personalised Direct Mail (Printed Letters)

Video – Personalised Direct Mail (Printed Letters) - Events

You may also find the following Instruction Sheets and OutlookWise articles useful, which deal with creating Views:

MX-Contact Information Sheet - Creating Views

Using a SQL Filter in Outlook 2002/2003 Views