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Create new Mail messages with BCC field open
Authored by: MaxMarino on Aug 13, '03 12:28:12PM

I suppose it is hence too difficult to enter "shift-splat-B" in Mail.app compose window?! "option-splat-R" adds instead the "Reply-To" header.
Alternatively you may access those from Edit menu.

I do not see the convenience of these script methods. Would be different if it was modifying default behavior but they are not (and would not be the right thing unless one uses BCC and Reply-To consistently)



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Create new Mail messages with BCC field open
Authored by: DizzyPenguin on Aug 13, '03 01:02:06PM

Ah! The Edit menu... and the keyboard shortcuts...
Now why didn't I ever think of looking there?!

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Create new Mail messages with BCC field open
Authored by: tssfulk on Aug 14, '03 12:10:57AM

Yours was a great hint! I used to use BCC on OS 9 (Eudora) when mailing all my friends and family update info. I have been miffed that it there was no preference (and I thought no way) to use BCC in Mail.app.

Now my huge update letter recipients will not have to see a gazillion TO: and CC: header listings.

tssfulk



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Re: "shift-splat-B"
Authored by: jiclark on Aug 14, '03 01:23:51AM
Thanks, that's very helpful as well... I hardly ever use any menus in Mail, so I'd not seen that one. Oh, and 'splat' for 'command', that's a new one too! Very clever...

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Re: "shift-splat-B"
Authored by: MaxMarino on Aug 14, '03 07:24:45AM

Just comes from my habit: I always check all menus and kb-shortcuts of all applications.

Splat meaning depends on where you are: on a Mac is the Command (or feature) key. Some MIT people use it for '#'; in IBM, DEC and other stands for the asterisk '*' character. This may derive from the "squashed-bug" appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers.

It is also an obsolete name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII circle-plus character, finally it is sometimes used by mathematicians as a notation for "tensor product".



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