[MlMt] Automating some emails

[Pedro Lobo]

On 22 Apr 2014, at 14:05, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 22 Apr 2014, at 14:19, Annamarie wrote:
>
>> Basically, I respond to folks with the same form letter over and 
>> over.  I have the letter on TextExpander but every time I need to 
>> switch email accounts and to turn off signatures.
>
> Why do you need to switch accounts? Are you not replying from the same 
> account (address) that these emails are sent to?
>
>> (and if I do that in the wrong order then I have to delete the extra 
>> space at the top.)  Seems like I shouldn't have to do that. I thought 
>> Keyboard Maestro would be my answer.  An hour of exploring seems to 
>> indicate that KM can't access the commands for switching accounts and 
>> turn off the signature easily. That might be wrong.
>
> I'm not an expert on the use of Keyboard Maestro. There are shortcuts 
> to open the menus (⌃⌘I and ⌃⌘S) and then some automated 
> arrowing-down would be needed. Maybe someone else can provide a clear 
> answer.
>
>> There are probably many ways to do this.. what's easy? A template to 
>> call up my form letter?
>
> Templated replies are still very experimental, but it's possible using 
> the `replyMessage` output action for bundle commands described earlier 
> today on this mailing list. That is still very low level and probably 
> not a viable solution for you. It would be possible though to create a 
> bundle using this feature which provided a GUI for selecting template 
> answers, but I cannot promise anything like that soon. (It might even 
> be possible to control signature and from-address, but I'm not 100% 
> sure about that.)
>
>> P.S. And if "key bindings" is in the answer someone will have to 
>> explain those to me. : )
>
> They are not going to help in this case I believe.
>
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> Benny
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Hi,

This would indeed be something relatively trivial to do with KM, but I'd 
need to know a little more.


Cheers,
Pedro Lobo

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