How to Get the "First Name" of the Sender from Mail and/or Spark?

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@martin

I'm wondering if there is a convenient way to get the first name of the sender?

Hey Guys,

Keyboard Maestro has a token for this:

@martin

What I would like to do is: when I reply someone's email, the reply email will begin with:

Hi [First Name],
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Hey @martin,

I've been doing this for about 25 years – starting with Eudora and continuing with Mail.

I've found over time that auto-insertion of a salutation on REPLY causes me extra work too often.

My solution is a Hotkey driven macro that I use in addition to Reply. This macro has a rules file for specialized greetings for various email addresses, and it has rules for handling things generically.

This way I use it on demand, and it only costs me one extra keystroke.

I also have another macro called Reply-With-Rules that does various things when Replying in various contexts.

-Chris