using applescript to autorespond to reply-to

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using applescript to autorespond to reply-to

Hi - I’ve searched fruitlessly for a solution to my problem, and hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.

I receive business referrals to my email via two online forms, both come from no-reply addresses. Autoresponders won’t reply to the reply-to address (the person who filled out the form). I would ideally like an autoresponder that runs while Mail is open on my iMac at home, and when an email is received from either of those two no-reply addresses, the script replies to the reply-to address with a message that includes a hyperlink to my online patient portal.

Possible? I’ve worked with AppleScript just a little and the automator, but way over my paygrade! This is for business, so I’m willing to pay for a solution if it exists.

Thanks in advance.

iMac, iOS 12.1

Posted on Nov 5, 2018 11:41 AM

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Camelot

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Nov 11, 2018 2:41 PM in response to armorton

This shouldn't be hard at all.

Save this script as a mail rule script in ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail

Then setup a Mail rule to trigger this script to run when messages from the addresses in question arrive:

use AppleScriptversion "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later

use scripting additions

property myMessageBody : "Your message goes here"

using terms from application "Mail"

on perform mail action with messagesmessageListin mailboxesmboxfor ruleaRule

repeat with eachMessage in messageList

-- make a new message

tell application "Mail"

set newMessage to (makenewoutgoing messagewith properties {subject:"new mail", content:myMessageBody})

tell newMessage

makenewto recipientwith properties {address:reply to of eachMessage}

end tell

sendnewMessage

end tell

end repeat

end perform mail action with messages

end using terms from

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armorton Author

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Nov 11, 2018 2:40 PM in response to Camelot

Thanks, Camelot. Worked perfectly, thank you!

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