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, [email protected] 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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