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[quote=309289:@Roger Clary]I need to correct myself. I had a fit of a time trying to add a new address in mail last night on my MBP running Sierra and blamed the wrong thing. Added the address to another Mac running El Cap. No problem. Added the address to my iPad and iPhone both on 10.2. No problem. My MBP still does not connect to the address correctly. So to correct my original statement.
I hate SIERRA with a burning hot passion.[/quote]

I had the same problem last week. Don’t add the account with Systempreferences->Internet Accounts. Do it within mail with Add Account.
Incomeing mail then worked. I had to manually configure the sending SMTP-Server in Mail->Preferences->Accounts
Select Account, Server-Settings, click outgoing Account pop-up, choose Edit SMTP Server List

I had to change the port, choose authentification method and add credentials.

For me it works mit Sierra now.

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@Sam: try to delete the Envelope Index files or the LSMMap2.

@Roger: configure your account manually. Make sure that the servers are correct. Try to change the port and the authentication settings.

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[quote=309336:@Beatrix Willius]@Sam: try to delete the Envelope Index files or the LSMMap2.
[/quote]
this works very nice when mail hangs up. also vacuum the sql database like I explained above.
vacuum against slowdowns, delete enveloppe when mail hangs.

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I am giving Spark a try at the moment and so far I am very happy with it.

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After a quick look at Spark:

  • I seriously want to hurt the developer who thinks that an animation belongs to a “create account” window.
  • Looks the the usual lightweight mail clients that are so modern nowadays (Airmail etc).
  • I can’t get searching to work with the “natural search language”.
  • No rules.
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Spark is used here too

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Something else about Mail…

Does anyone know about a plugin that simply puts in “Hello ,” at the top of every reply???

Marius

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You might be able to use Typinator to do something like that.

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or “keyboard maestro” which is basically the same software

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Or just use what’s built-in. System Preferences > Keyboard > Text and make your own shortcuts.

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Ok, thank you for your help. But that all isn’t what I mean. Using things like shortcuts is somethink else.
I just want to klick on reply, and there should be a text like “Hi Marius Noetzel!” in the First line.
Using a shortcut for that feels more complex than just typing that by hand.

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If typing three characters is too complex, then the less helpful answer to your original question was just “no, that doesn’t exist” :slight_smile:

You could make an AppleScript that opens up a new Mail message and automatically inserts the desired text. But perhaps that is also too complex.

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keyboard maestro allow you to make a macro that insert text, like 'Hi ’
then also insert the name of the current mail sender to the same text,
then insert a “!”
download the demo and try by yourself : https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/

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Script idea is a pretty good one. You’d probably need to put the script in the script menu and run it from there, or attach a keyboard shortcut to it. Here’s the beginning of a script. All it does so far is get the name in the reply to field. To make this robust you’d need lots of conditions. What to do if there were cc addresses, how to handle addresses that aren’t fully formatted, what to do when there’s only an email and no actual name, etc. I think it could get rather complicated pretty quickly but you could make it work if you have relatively defined circumstances where you’d use it.

tell application “Mail”
set theSel to (get selection)
repeat with theMessage in theSel
set theName to extract name from reply to of theMessage
log theName
end repeat
end tell

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I use MailMate all day. It’s especially nice if you like to remain on the keyboard and like fast powerful search options.

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[quote=310424:@Marius Dieter Noetzel]Ok, thank you for your help. But that all isn’t what I mean. Using things like shortcuts is somethink else.
I just want to klick on reply, and there should be a text like “Hi Marius Noetzel!” in the First line.
Using a shortcut for that feels more complex than just typing that by hand.[/quote]
Yeah that would be cool!