[MlMt] a few questions from a (former) Mailsmith user

[Michael Dunston]

After fifteen years of using Bare Bones Mailsmith (and primarily 
POP-based email, although I maintain both POP and IMAP email servers), I 
am considering moving to IMAP and Mailmate appears to the most 
functional, well-designed, and impressive modern mail client I’ve seen 
since switching to Mailsmith in the late 90s.  After using it for a 
couple of weeks and deciding to make the transition however, I have a 
few questions which I am hoping someone might be able to answer.  If I 
missed something in the help-file/manual though, please let me know..

First, is there a “paste as quoted” command, or pre-existing way to 
combine the functions of “paste” and “quoting -> increase level” 
into a single key command?  It looks like multiple actions can be 
defined for a single key binding, and it appears that custom key 
bindings could be used to do this, but is there a more direct way of 
doing with with the stock application?  And as a followup question - if 
key bindings are necessary to do this, could these need to be installed 
in “~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict” or would they have 
to be within the app package itself?  (where the would be over-written 
with app updates)

Is there any way to re-wrap quoted or body text, preferably with a 
user-defined column width and indentation options?  I see the BBEdit 
bundle will pass messages being drafted into BBEdit, but I don’t see 
how those edits come back to Mailmate (aside from a manual copy/paste?) 
and it would be more helpful to be able to do this directly in Mailmate 
if possible.  I see the case-change options in the “Edit -> 
Transformations” menu, but

Is there a menu item, or more specifically a key shortcut, for copying 
messages to a mailbox - similar to the “Move to mailbox…” 
function?  I see that this can be done using rule actions as well as 
manually by dragging selected messages while holding down the option 
key, but not a menu item for which a key shortcut or binding might be 
defined.

Regarding replies, is there reply setting to place the quoted text at 
the top (with the insertion point after), for inline (or bottom-posting) 
replies?  Additionally, is there a way to edit the attribution line text 
inserted into a reply?

Lastly, is there a way for sent-replies to remain in (or rather, be 
automatically moved to) the same mailbox/folder as the original message 
so they can be more easily manually filed (moved to a folder) together?

Thank you in advance for your time any thoughts or suggestions you might 
have regarding these questions!