More flexible reply/forward templates

[daboo@…]

I was just thinking that another way would be via cabinets and the introduction of 'reply styles'. :) You create a reply style as you would an alert style and then associate it with a cabinet. The reply styles could be included in the reply options popup as well, so that a selection on a per message basis would still be possible.

Actually an identity may be a better choice because identities can be tied to accounts or mailboxes. So a reply option in an identity tied to a mailbox would mean any replies by default from that mailbox would use the options specific to that mailbox. The same behavior ought to apply to forward options to.

The other thing that has come up is having a more flexible way to specify a reply 'template'. The right way to do that would be to redesign the reply/forward dialogs to add %quoted and %cursor substitutions that would insert quoted text and move the cursor to the location. Then there would be no need for separate Header/Footer panels - one single text panel would do. What's more there should probably be a %signature option too to allow the signature to be inserted at some arbitrary location.

[Curtis]

As someone who used The Bat! prior to going IMAP and now Apple, I know what you're talking about. The Bat! has what you described implemented to an unmatched degree. I miss it a lot. I used the templates for a lot of things, most being nice to be doing though not indispensable. However, I do find the ability to define different reply formats essential to modern e-mailing with two distinct styles emerging, pretty much as distinct as HTML vs plain text messaging.

[openmacnews@…]

The right way to do that would be to redesign the reply/forward dialogs to add %quoted and %cursor substitutions

also worth considering the addition of additional header-related substitutions, e.g.

%time %date %subject %from

as well as:

%insert_text_file

to grab text, perhaps with substitution variables IN it, from file_system files ...

[daboo]

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