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A simple pick this week that adds a useful feature to Mail: the ability to follow up on an email you've previously sent. I ran across this one in last week's Mac Gems column, where Dan Frakes covered it in detail. This simple plug-in adds a new Followup option to Mail's contextual menu. With a sent message selected, pick Followup from the contextual menu, and Mail will open a new mail message with your original text pasted in quoted form, and the subject modified with re: at the beginning. This is useful when you want to, um, "remind" a correspondent that they may owe you something based on the email you sent three months ago (not that I've ever been guilty of such slow email handling, mind you!).

Yes, you can fairly easily do this manually. But why bother, when a free plug-in makes it so simple. If you need more detail on the plug-in, read the above-linked Mac Gems column (Dan covers a couple of additional Mail plug-ins as well).
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MailFollowup - Easily follow up on sent Mail messages
Authored by: caek on Feb 05, '07 09:54:21AM

This is good but it would be better if it just modified the Reply functionality so that if you reply to a mail you sent yourself Mail did the obvious, sensible thing and populated the To: field with that of the original recipient. Obviously, it would be _even better_ if Mail.app worked that way out of the box, which is what, e.g. mutt does.



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MailFollowup - Easily follow up on sent Mail messages
Authored by: Bodoggy on Feb 05, '07 07:34:50PM

Kind of cool, but I just forward the email instead. The difference between Re: and Fwd: isn't enough to warrant a plug-in IMO.



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MailFollowup - Easily follow up on sent Mail messages
Authored by: sapporo on Feb 06, '07 12:48:50AM

Perfect! Something I was looking for but was afraid to ask..



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MailFollowup - Easily follow up on sent Mail messages
Authored by: saper on Feb 06, '07 01:18:21PM

Why not just type command-shift D to resend the message ?

Mark



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