Hey Tim,
Replying via email sucks, because the email parser doesn’t manage quoting or styled text.
(This is an example.)
Hey Tim,
The only upside it seems is that the forum did allow me to a apply markdown in the reply message.
(This message was composed on the forum.)
I do nearly all my composing with the forum editor, so I can see what the heck it looks like.
I use the following AppleScript to open forum messages from Apple Mail in Safari.
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2013/04/02 14:00
# dMod: 2016/03/09 04:32
# Appl: Apple Mail & Default browser
# Task: Visit List-Serve Page Related to List-Mail-Message if Available.
# Libs: ELb
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Mail, @List, @Archive, @Header, @Browser
# Test: On OSX 10.9.x & 10.10.5
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try
set listArchiveUrl to {}
set urlToOpen to false
set yahooGroupsBaseURL to "http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/"
tell application "Mail"
set messageList to selection
if length of messageList = 1 then
set theMessage to item 1 of messageList
else
error "No messages OR too many messages are seleced!"
end if
tell theMessage
set msgText to content
set listID to content of (headers whose name is "List-Id")
if listID ≠ {} then set listID to item 1 of listID
set listArchiveUrl to content of (headers whose name is "List-Archive")
if listArchiveUrl ≠ {} then
set listArchiveUrl to item 1 of listArchiveUrl
end if
--» Applescript Users List
if listID contains "applescript-users.lists.apple.com" then
set urlToOpen to "http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users"
end if
--» Keyboard Maestro Discourse Forum
if listID contains "forum.keyboardmaestro.com" then
set shCMD to "<<< " & (quoted form of msgText) & ¬
" sed -En '/^To respond, reply to this email or visit https:[^[:blank:]]+/{
s!.+(https:[^[:blank:]]+).*!\\1!
p
}'"
set urlToOpen to do shell script shCMD
end if
--» Mail Act-On { Indev }
if listID contains "support.indev.ca" then
set shCMD to "<<< " & (quoted form of msgText) & ¬
" sed -En '/^\\/\\/ Please reply above this line/,/^URL:.+/p' \\
| sed -En 's!^URL: (.+)!\\1!p'"
set urlToOpen to do shell script shCMD
end if
--» Path Finder Beta
# URL: http://support.indev.ca/discussions
if listID contains "Path Finder <support.cocoatech.com>" then
set shCMD to "<<< " & (quoted form of msgText) & " sed -En '
/View this discussion at our support site online:/ {n;p;}
'"
set urlToOpen to do shell script shCMD
end if
--» Yahoo Groups
if listID contains "yahoogroups.com" then
set shCMD to "<<< " & (quoted form of listID) & " sed -E '
s![<>]!!g
s!\\.yahoogroups\\.com$!!
'"
set listID to do shell script shCMD
set urlToOpen to yahooGroupsBaseURL & listID & "/info"
end if
end tell
end tell
if urlToOpen = false then
if listArchiveUrl is not in {{}, ""} then
set shCMD to "<<< " & (quoted form of listArchiveUrl) & " sed -E 's!^<|>$!!g'"
set urlToOpen to do shell script shCMD
end if
end if
if urlToOpen ≠ false then
tell application "Safari"
make new document with properties {URL:urlToOpen}
set bounds of front window to {228, 22, 1542, 1196}
activate
end tell
end if
on error e number n
set e to e & return & return & "Num: " & n
if n ≠ -128 then
try
tell application (path to frontmost application as text) to set ddButton to button returned of ¬
(display dialog e with title "ERROR!" buttons {"Copy Error Message", "Cancel", "OK"} ¬
default button "OK" giving up after 30)
if ddButton = "Copy Error Message" then set the clipboard to e
end try
end if
end try
-Chris
I pretty much agree with that - I use it only for very simple responses, and then I have to make sure I don't include a normal termination sign off like I normally would in an email, and turn off my signature in case the email parsing doesn't notice that and includes it in the message.
So if I have to do anything other than a pretty trivial response, I use the forum editor.