[MlMt] Create replies from templates

[Martin Guddat]

Hi Benny, Andrew,

thanks for your responses. I think I would like to give it a go. A have 
not to much experience with Applecript, but I have programming knowledge 
with some other languages, so I am quite sure I will be able to get what 
I want if you could point me in the right direction and give me a flying 
start with a example bundle (an aspect of mailmate I have mostly ignored 
until now)

Thanks for your help!

Martin

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On 10 Feb 2017, at 18:36, catesandrew at gmail.com wrote:

> On 10 Feb 2017, at 3:27, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 3 Feb 2017, at 19:32, Martin Guddat wrote:
>>
>>> I am looking for a way to automate reponding to email without 
>>> getting to generic, so I want to give a proper greeting as well as 
>>> matching salutation. For this I would like to use something like 
>>> templates. For a given response I would have to select from a set of 
>>> options (salutation male/femame/unknown, formal or informal greeting 
>>> etc) and fill the template with data I get from the mail.
>>>
>>> I found some discussion on templates and mail merge as well as some 
>>> notes from Benny on "Commands"  19 Jan 2014, at 16:22) but nothing 
>>> conclusive. Is there more available on this topic or anyone minds to 
>>> share his workflow on things like this?
>>
>> It's actually a bit surprising how rarely I'm asked about some kind 
>> of template system, but it's certainly something I would like 
>> MailMate to be able to do.
>>
>> The only way to do it now is to use a custom bundle. This allows you 
>> to get any value from the replied email and use it in an 
>> automatically generated reply. (It's even possible to send the reply 
>> without editing the resulting message.)
>>
>> In your particular case, you could use AppleScript to ask for the 
>> options, but it's going to require some scripting skills. I can 
>> create an example bundle to setup the general framework for you, but 
>> I cannot offer you to do the AppleScript part.
>
> I use TextExpander for my templates. Works across multiple 
> applications too. I’m migrating to Keyboard Maestro and ditching 
> TextExpander at the moment and will be able to achieve the same thing 
> there.
>
> In reference to custom bundles, I too do this as well. I use node’s 
> template system but you could use go’s or any others as well. I pipe 
> it back to stdout to finish. Not sure of any way a bundle can ask for 
> input from user which is why TextExpander is nice. It _might_ be 
> possible to have the bundle’s invoke some sort of gui to ask for the 
> input, but i’m not sure its possible.


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