Hi Everyone! A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I wrote something along the lines of...
> anyone have a handy macro to quote one message but reply to the initiator of > the thread to which it belongs? Well, no-one did, and I said I might have a bash at creating one. Now I find myself totally unable to sleep after a very long and very entertaining work day, and what should spring to mind but that exact rash promise. So here, for your edification and entertainment, is my little system for doing just this. I've tested it using 3.51 Pro on XP on list and non-list messages, and it seems to work just fine. To achieve best results - OK, any results at all - you'll need all the following macros. =====[ Begin PlainThreadTopMID ]===== %REM='Returns the MID of the first message in the thread in a format suitable for entry in a header field' %REM='Created on 2005-07-09' <%- %SETPATTREGEXP='(?is)<(.*?)>'%- %REGEXPBLINDMATCH='%oheader(References)'%- %SUBPATT='1'%- >%- =====[ End PlainThreadTopMID ]===== =====[ Begin QuoteMIDOfQuotedMessage ]===== %REM='Returns the MID of the message from which text is quoted in a format suitable for quoting in the body of a message' <mid:%SETPATTREGEXP=";<(.*)>"%REGEXPMATCH="%OMSGID">%- =====[ End QuoteMIDOfQuotedMessage ]===== =====[ Begin QuoteThreadTopMID ]===== %REM='Returns the MID of the first message in the thread in a format suitable for quoting in the body of a message' <mid:%- %SETPATTREGEXP='(?is)<(.*?)>'%- %REGEXPBLINDMATCH='%oheader(References)'%- %SUBPATT='1'%- >%- =====[ End QuoteThreadTopMID ]===== =====[ Begin ReplyToThreadTop ]===== %REM='Replies to the first message in a thread quoting text from another message in the thread and threading to the top of the thread' %SETHEADER("In-Reply-To","%QInclude(PlainThreadTopMID)")%- %SETHEADER("References","%QInclude(PlainThreadTopMID)")%- In reply to the thread beginning with %- %QInclude(QuoteThreadTopMID) %- quoting text from %- %QInclude(QuoteMIDOfQuotedMessage)%- =====[ End ReplyToThreadTop ]===== -- Groetjes Natasha The Bat! 3.51 Pro on Windows XP Pro 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.51 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
