Reply-To field default value for Mail under OsX 10.4 &10.5

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Gordon Sande - 23 Jul 2008 20:29 GMT

I have a default value for Reply-To for Mail under OsX 10.4 (Tiger).
Unfortunately I have forgotten how I did it. :-( I suspect it involved
one of the third party extra option setting utilities.

Now I am trying to set a default for Reply-to for Mail on OsX 10.5
(Leopard).

What menu option have I missed or what utility have I forgotten to use?

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Tom Stiller - 23 Jul 2008 21:24 GMT

> I have a default value for Reply-To for Mail under OsX 10.4 (Tiger).
> Unfortunately I have forgotten how I did it. :-( I suspect it involved
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>
> What menu option have I missed or what utility have I forgotten to use?

I set mine using a plist editor, but something like:
defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders "Reply-To" "<e-mail address>
ought to work.

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Mike Rosenberg - 23 Jul 2008 23:20 GMT

> > Now I am trying to set a default for Reply-to for Mail on OsX 10.5
> > (Leopard).
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> defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders "Reply-To" "<e-mail address>
> ought to work.

Or you could just click on the icon to the left of the From field in a
new message window and turn on the option from the menu there.

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Gordon Sande - 24 Jul 2008 02:50 GMT

>>> Now I am trying to set a default for Reply-to for Mail on OsX 10.5
>>> (Leopard).
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> Or you could just click on the icon to the left of the From field in a
> new message window and turn on the option from the menu there.

One can easily set it each and every time from the menu. But it does
not stick around.

The problem is setting a DEFAULT! The plist solution seems to be a
variant on the recipe that google leads to at about.com.

I expect that one of the OS Tuning utilites has packaged it as well.

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Mike Rosenberg - 24 Jul 2008 04:16 GMT

> > Or you could just click on the icon to the left of the From field in a
> > new message window and turn on the option from the menu there.
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>
> The problem is setting a DEFAULT!

You're correct that setting it from the View menu applies to that one
message only without making it a default. That's not what I said to do,
though. If you do what I said, it becomes the default setting.

The plist solution seems to be a

> variant on the recipe that google leads to at about.com.
>
> I expect that one of the OS Tuning utilites has packaged it as well.

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Reply-To field default value for Mail under OsX 10.4 &10.5