On 1 Jan 2016, at 9:20 PM, S. J. Cunningham < email@hidden> wrote:
I am constantly hitting "Reply" and inadvertently sending the message to the original poster rather than to the list. I know I am not the only one plagued by this. Would it be possible for the list manager to add a "Reply To" header that points to the list?
Well, you could always script your way around the problem. Make a Service with ‘command-option-control-R’, perhaps?
tell application "Mail" activate set theMessage to item 1 of (get selection) set replyToList to reply theMessage reply to all "true" end tell
The only problem I have with using the “reply” verb is it doesn’t let you set the recipient to *only* the list, and I don’t like doubling up on replies. One way round it would be this:
tell application "Mail" set theMessage to item 1 of (get selection) set theContent to theMessage's content set originalSubLine to theMessage's subject
if rich text 1 thru 3 of originalSubLine contains "Re:" then set theSubject to originalSubLine else set theSubject to "Re: " & originalSubLine end if
set replyToList to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theContent}
tell replyToList
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties { name:"AS User List", address:" email@hidden"} end tell
end tell
However, the drawback here is that it seems to lose all the rich text formatting and quotation indenting. Perhaps someone can find a way round that?
Best
Phil |