rifsuda01: Change Mail behavior when replying to a message in the Sent mailbox

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Change Mail behavior when replying to a message in the Sent mailbox

When using Gmail (I don't know if this is the case with other webmail providers), if you reply to a message in your Sent mailbox, the recipient of the reply message is set to the recipient of the original message you sent. That makes sense, it's useful for quickly replying to a message you've just sent when you realize you've forgotten something (like an attachment).

However, Apple Mail doesn't work that way; if you reply to a message in your Sent mailbox, you (the sender of the original message) become the recipient of the reply message (which is pretty useless in my opinion).

If you choose Reply all instead of Reply, it's a little better: you are still the 'To' recipient of the reply message, but the recipients of the original message are added as Cc: recipients of the reply message.

I used this fact to create an AppleScript that when invoked creates a reply to the selected message in the Sent mailbox in Mail, with the recipients of the original mess ...