Permanently add Reply To headers in Mail.app

Sep 04, '02 09:27:30AM

Contributed by: dzurn

Mail.app has an option to show a Reply-To header when composing emails. Like many of us, I have a forwarding account which I would like to be used for all replies, instead of the email address for the ISP accounts.

Manually adding the headers is a thing of the past now, as there is an AppleScript to automatically add the Reply-To headers to *all* outgoing mail automatically. Here is the info from the original poster:

Try the Applescript called 'Add Headers to Outgoing Email'. In case you don't read the Read Me: THESE SCRIPTS ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY APPLE. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

- cricket
The AppleScript writes the default header to a Mail.app preferences file, so it will add the header until it is edited or removed entirely with the "remove" script, also thoughtfully provided by cricket.

[Editor's note: cricket is a member of Apple's Mail development team who occasionally posts to the X4U mailing list. I assume (hope!) it would be relatively trivial to modify this script to also always insert the "BCC" field. I took a quick look at the source, but it's well beyond my limited AppleScript experience. Anyone got a quick modification to add BCC as well?]

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