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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><div dir="auto">On 2 Nov 2016, at 9:46, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
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</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div dir="auto">On 1 Nov 2016, at 20:37, Claire Connelly wrote:
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</div><div dir="auto">[correspondents field]
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</div><div dir="auto">This is cool, although it's not quite the same, as it includes other recipients. But it works for now! (Thanks, Bob!)
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</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div dir="auto">Something like this is supported via Contacts. If a contact has a nickname then this is also searched when looking for completions, but it's not included in the generated name/email address.
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</div><div dir="auto">Aha—that works, too, even for groups, although it means you need to set up fake contacts for things that aren't people or groups of contacts. (Nmh, of course, just has a text file.)
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</div><div dir="auto">[variables]
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</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div dir="auto">No, but I certainly agree that the learning curve is too steep. It's an interesting idea to offer displaying all possible parsed values of the headers of a given message. I'll give that some thought.
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</div><div dir="auto">I think that would be a really useful feature, if it's not too hard to code.
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</div><div dir="auto">[documentation]
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</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><div dir="auto">Related to that, it would be nice to have better documentation for the mailbox name format options for submailboxes—I did find some mailing list messages covering these, but it would be easier if they were in the actual documentation.
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</div><div dir="auto">Noted.
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</div><div dir="auto">[templates]
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</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div dir="auto">If I understand correctly then I guess you should have duplicated the draft instead (most easily done by doing copy/paste, that is, hitting ⌘C followed by ⌘V).
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</div><div dir="auto">Oh, wow, that totally works. I looked in the right-click menu and didn't see anything that would do the trick, and it never occurred to me to just try ⌘C/⌘V.
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</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div dir="auto">Undocumented and maybe only used by me, MailMate does have some support for creating a draft with some template values inserted in the body. Combined with a bundle command this can be used to auto-generate emails based on some source to fill in the templated values. It's probably a bit too low level for your use case. It's also possible to autogenerate replies, but again, this is undocumented (and possibly also incomplete since I'm likely the only one using it at this point).
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</div><div dir="auto">For this particular use case, yes, that's too low level. In the past when I've had to send a whole bunch of prefilled messages I've used a script to generate them and either copied them into my +drafts folder and sent them from there, created content in temporary files and used `mail` to send them, or created `mailto:` links with the contents. So maybe that would be useful after all, although I think I can do what I need with emate.
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</div><div dir="auto">Anyway, thanks! It's been a bit of a learning curve, but after twenty-five years of using MH, I think I'm adapting pretty quickly.
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