macOS Generate and Send New Message on Receipt of Email in Mail.app

[Zyniker]

So, I have a request that will (likely) involve an AppleScript.

Essentially, what I want to accomplish is this:

If I receive an email with an email address in the subject line (let's use address@email.com), I want Mail to generate a new email to the address from the subject line and then send it with a pre-defined body text.

If anyone knows how to accomplish this, the help would be much appreciated.

 

[miles01110]

You can do this with Mail Rules. I would explain the process, but it's pretty simple and you might find something else there you might be interested in at the same time. Mail -> Preferences -> Rules

 

[Zyniker]

You can do this with Mail Rules. I would explain the process, but it's pretty simple and you might find something else there you might be interested in at the same time. Mail -> Preferences -> Rules

I don't believe I can do this with the Rules in Mail. Perhaps you were under the impression that I meant if I receive an email with one, specific email address as the subject I'd like to respond to it; however, this is not the case.

I would like to take ANY email address in the subject line of an email sent to a particular account and automatically send an email (with some pre-determined body text) to the email address that was contained in the subject line of the received email.

 

[kainjow]

It's (AFAIK) doable with Mail rules but yes you'll have to use AppleScript to parse out the email address from the subject and generate the new email. See this thread for a template to get started.

(I moved this thread to Mac Programming)

 

[miles01110]

Ah, ok- I missed the parsing part. Whoops.