1- The subject and body don't seem to accept variables, which is surprising.
I can do it the long way (→ followed by 6 ⇥ ) but it's slow and cumbersome.
2- please note that I want to insert / paste rich text, not plain text. I mention this because KM Wiki reads Note that this Keyboard Maestro form field supports only plain-text. If you want to enter rich-text, you will need to do so after you run this action.
3- I am also surprised that if I use the action alone, the email is created in the background. I have to add the activate Mail action before it to see the newly created email.
Mail does not support creating messages with rich-text via AppleScript. It was possible somewhere pre-Sierra, but Apple in its infinite wisdom broke it and has chosen not to fix it.
Keyboard Maestro uses AppleScript behind the scenes in it's Send Mail action, so there's nothing to be done.
The only way is to create the message and then PASTE rich-text into the email body.
Yes, that's another quirk in the way AppleScript works with Mail.
many apologies for the delay. Fantastic reply. Extremely useful. All the contorsions I was going through and never getting anything close to your macro. Thank you so much !
This Macro is great. Is it possible to extract the last name of the mail address to create a standard letter speech like "Dear Mr. Doe" in "mailbody"?
Andreas
Note that this Keyboard Maestro form field supports only plain-text. If you want to enter rich-text, you will need to do so after you run this action.
