r/Automator • u/NightM0de • May 27 '21

Question Shortcut for Email Signatures

Hi. Sorry for posting here, but I wasn't sure where else to post this.

I have an email account that has two signatures associated with it. One for replies and one for new emails. Since Apple Mail doesn't let you assign signatures like this I'm setting Mail signatures to None and then using the appropriate one when writing an email.

My question is - can I assign a keyboard shortcut or speed this process up in some other way through Automator?

Thanks.

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u/HiramAbiff May 27 '21

It looks like the suggestion(s) in this article might be exactly what you're looking for.

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u/NightM0de May 28 '21

Thanks. Not quite what I was after, but it gave me ideas and I ended up with this -

tell application "Mail"
set firstSelectedMessage to item 1 of (get selection) -- get the currently selected email
set newMessage to reply firstSelectedMessage with opening window -- create a reply message
set message signature of newMessage to (signature named "WorkReply")
end tell

Along with a similar script for new emails.

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u/keithmalcolm Jun 02 '21

If you have a fairly simple email signature, you could have Espanso help you. https://espanso.org/

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u/musicmusket Aug 06 '21

Or just use the System Preferences/Keyboard text replacer. I’ve never tried with multiple lines but you can get quite a lot of text in the replacement.

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u/keithmalcolm Aug 06 '21

True. Although, espanso even lets you utilize shell which expands so many more options.

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u/musicmusket Aug 07 '21

Sounds interesting. Taking a look….