10.7: Changed behavior in replying to Sent Mail messages

Nov 04, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: NaOH-Lye

In pre-Lion versions of Mail, replying to a message in the Sent mailbox created a message window that would be setup to go to yourself. Logical, if not necessarily useful. Mail.app in 10.7 adopts a feature that Gmail has long had, and now replying to a message you've already sent will automatically be configured to go to the previous recipient.

For those running pre-10.7 systems who would like similar functionality, an AppleScript was submitted a few months ago to replicate this behavior. And for those who are curious, this feature does not extend to iOS 5.

[crarko adds: I'm OK with the new handling, but using the referenced script from the earlier hint lets you choose how to have Mail deal with this. There may be cases when one behavior or the other is more desirable.]

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