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Hello,
Yesterday, I sent a question to TBUDL, and in Januk's helpful reply,
he suggested that questions about "regular expressions" be dealt with
in this list. So here I am...
While I'm still trying to figure out the bits of template that Januk
recommended (my personal template/auto-response usage to date is far
more elementary in nature), I would like to repeat the post I sent to
TBUDL (below), and provide a little more information...
The person who is in need of this solution is my mother. She is quite
new to using the Internet, email, etc., but does already have need for
some of The Bat!'s nice features (I just got her to switch from
another client). Since I'm not near enough to her to sit down at her
computer with her, I usually end up spending hours on the phone with
her, going through things step by step.
I would really like to be able to set up a single template for her
auto-responder that I can send to her and help her set it up on her
machine. For her - it *needs* to be very simple - preferably a "set
and forget" type of template/auto-responder. Until she learns more, I
will be composing this template for her - so the she can just
copy/paste it into the appropriate template window.
The solution recommended by Januk involved a few different steps -
including use of Quick Templates. If possible, I would really like to
find a "single step" type of auto-reply template, that can be invoked
on each message in a specific incoming folder, ( folder will be created
to accept only the specific mail that requires this particular
auto-response).
Here is the message I originally sent to TBUDL (edited a bit):
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I just got my mother to start using The Bat!, and she asked me if a
certain thing is possible. Not knowing quite how - or even if - this
can be done, I come here to ask...
1) The situation:
She receives several messages a day from a company (form letters -
"From:" and "Subject:" fields are always the same, message body format
is always the same). However - within the message body of each one,
there are a few unique fields - two of them being the first name and
email address of a different person for each message. Looking
*exactly* like this:
Q1: What is your first name?
A1: <Name>
Q3: What is your e-mail address
A3: <Email address>
2) The objective:
To send an identical auto-reply message to each individual represented
in the unique fields mentioned above, with the only differences being
the name after "Hello" in the salutation, and the individual email
address in the "To:" field of each auto-response.
3) The question(s):
Using a *single* template/auto-responder setup, is it somehow possible
to "capture" the first name and email address from the body of these
"form" messages that arrive (format is exactly as shown above), and
send out "individualized" (otherwise identical message body)
auto-response messages using the captured first name in the salutation
(ie: "Hello <captured name>,"), and making the captured email address
the recipient?
And - for already received and saved messages, can a manual "hotkey"
application of the filter/auto-response, applied to a folder (Inbox),
generate these individual response messages and send them out?
I hope I've made this clear enough. Please let me know if I haven't.
I've only used the auto-response and Macro/template features in their
most basic form so far, and this feels a bit over my head at the
moment.
Any help would be appreciated. If you feel your answer(s) may be too
long for the list, feel free to write directly to me.
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I apologize for this message being so long. I'll try to keep
subsequent messages shorter. I flunked "sound byte school".
Melissa
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