Reply/Forward to Not-Me – Option / shortcut / any solution
Reported by Thomas Hanke | January 23rd, 2012 @ 12:50 PM
Hi Benny,
I’m still alive and using MailMate as my primary mail
client.
Let’s say MailMate and I have been in the
just-works-mostly-perfectly phase. More generally, I’ve been
switching from contemplating to getting things done, well, most of
the time.
Anyway, my request / bug:
It‘s about saving little time and some effort, but many times
per week in my usage scenario.
Let's see:
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Some conversation, several e-mails
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I want to kinda reply to / forward a message sent by myself.
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The e-mail should be sent to the other person/people – as regular To (not CC).
No need to send it to my own address, that’s what folders/labels/filters/ are good – and the ominous All Mail bucket. -
The best I could come up is using Reply or Reply-All (or even Forward) and pasting the intended recipient into the To field.
Reply All works okayish, but I'm left with being the primary recipient.
- What I think I want:
Some algorithm that is able to recognize that some address of mine is the sender of the original e-mail and replies/forwards/sends the e-mail to the other(s).
I guess it‘s good enough to get some shortcut / menu entry
that works as Reply, but switches To and From automatically.
In my scenario, CC plays no huge role.
But feel free to question / correct me :-)
I thought I mentioned that somewhere somewhen. Anyway the
scenario is very common for me, at least.
And yes, I admit, another of those 'I want my Gmail in MailMate'
requests – standard behavior in some mail clients, at
least.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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benny January 24th, 2012 @ 01:59 PM
Good to know that you are still using MailMate ;-) (In spite of some very old and probably still open tickets.)
If I understood your request correctly then I would say that this is what MailMate already does, but obviously this is not what you see. I just took a look on the related code and it seems it'll only work if
- the from name used for the messages are the same
- the message you are replying to is located in “Sent Messages”
Does this explain why it does not work for you?
(And I should think about changing the above conservative conditions. Not sure what would be best to avoid false positives, but it should not rely on “Sent Messages”.)
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benny October 9th, 2013 @ 11:11 AM
- State changed from “new” to “fixcommitted”
MailMate has already improved in earlier versions with respect to “reply-to-self”, but the latest test version should work well for most messages (including those where the From address only matches an Address Pattern).
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Mac OS X email client.
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