Canned Responses

Hi Benny ~

It's great to see that there's been concrete movement on canned responses!

I've found the templates.mmBundle here https://lists.freron.com/mailmate/2017-March/007913.html and have been playing with it. Looks great!

Now I'd like move to the next step, but I haven't been able to find any documentation. Is there any way you could point me to a list of what I can use to populate my templates?

Right now I'm stuck with the included {MM_FIRSTNAME}. For some reason I haven't even been able to get {MM_LASTNAME} to work. Specifically I'd like to be able to use some date functions, or if at all possible.

As always, thanks so much.

Any way to put the cursor in the middle of the message (after the greeting) with this bundle technique?

@Mark: You might appreciate the documentation for bundles provided here. You have to explicitly create the available environment variables in the .mmCommand files using so-called specifiers. You can also provide dates using, e.g., #date or #date-received. These are virtual headers generated by MailMate (taking care of parsing date headers which can be very hard).

@Jon: Bundle commands cannot explicitly control the caret position, but I believe it is possible to control the use of a signature and its top/bottom placement if that is good enough for your use case.

I built a quick reply bundle that you could use/modify for this need

https://github.com/prenagha/quick-reply.mmbundle

Thanks for all the replies - although it looks like I might've gotten in over my head here.

I've already gone over the bundle documentation but couldn't find any specifiers listed. The hyperlink for "specifiers" just returns me to the top of the page. In all honesty I don't think I have a deep enough understanding to make sense of much of that documentation. It may be that the answer's there and I just can't see it.

I'll be sure to take a good look at Padraic's bundle (after I get a chance to install python) and take a second shot at the bundle documentation to see if I can't move forward on this. I'd love to be able to get this up and running, but it's looking like I just don't have the skill (yet).

Thanks so much for trying to help.

@Mark: You are correct that specifiers are badly documented. You are welcome to ask for specific values, but you can also use a smart mailbox with conditions to select a header using the GUI popup and then look in the following file to see what the corresponding specifier is:

~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Mailboxes.plist

And don't blame your own lack of skills for this being hard. Clearly, it should be much easier to setup a templates system, but it's just not something I've had the time to improve yet.

Well that'll certainly give me something to play with.

Thanks again.