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Variables for email dates #326

Closed ghinda closed 10 months ago

ghinda commented 5 years ago

Add variables for email/message dates (eg. received_at).

+1

e-t-l commented 10 months ago

What message would such a variable refer to? Do you mean that if the email you're drafting is a reply to a message, then {{received.at}} would insert the time that you received the first email? If you mean that it would insert the date/time that your recipient receives the email you're currently drafting, that's impossible. Variables are expanded at the time of typing, and obviously Briskine does not know what time the email will be received before you have even sent it.

ghinda commented 10 months ago

This would only work for replies, not for new emails/messages. We could get the date of the last message you received(the one you're replying to) from the screen.

The idea was to be able to have conditional content in the template that shows up depending on when you've received the last message. For example, if you're replying to a message from 7 days ago, the template could insert "We are sorry for the late reply".

But, there haven't been any new requests for this feature recently, so I'm going to close it for now.