How to include greeting for each addressee?

[ReaderGuy42]

See below for the scripts I use, which are adapted from your wiki or other threads.

I'd like to have the script include a "Dear" for each addressee, so each person I add to the message as an email address.

So far it looks like this Dear Mike, Stephen if I've added emails for Mike and Stephen. But is there a way so it'd look like Dear Mike, dear Stephen?

Scripts:

EN-TemplateByTypeSemiFormal

// get subject from email if possible
if(!this.mWindow.document.getElementById('msgSubject')) return "";
let subject = this.mWindow.document.getElementById('msgSubject').value;

// detect first prefix
let firstPrefix = "";
firstPrefix="";
if(subject.toLowerCase().startsWith("re: "))  firstPrefix = "Re: ";
if(subject.toLowerCase().startsWith("fwd: ")) firstPrefix = "Fwd: ";

// search and remove all prefixes
let previousLength = 0;
while(previousLength != subject.length) { // repeat the process if something gets shortened
  previousLength = subject.length;

  subject = subject.replace(/^(re:\s|r:\s|aw:\s|antw:\s|antwort:\s)/i, "");    
// replace "Re: ", "R: ", "Aw: ", "Antw: ", "Antwort: "
  subject = subject.replace(/^(fwd:\s|fw:\s|wg:\s|wt:\s|wtrlt:\s)/i, "");      
// replace "Fwd: ", "Fw: ", "Wg: ", "Wt: ", "Wtrlt: "
  subject = subject.replace(/^(Re-\d:\s|Re\[\d\]:\s)/i, "");                   
// replace "Re-1: ", "Re-2: ", "Re[1]: ", "Re[2]: "
  subject = subject.replace(/^(\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*\s|\[SPAM\]\s)/i, "");      
// replace "****Spam**** ", "[Spam] "
  subject = subject.replace(/^(Automatische Antwort:\s)/i, "");                
// replace "Automatische Antwort: "
  subject = subject.replace(/^(\[Extern]\s-\s|\[Extern]\s|\[Extern]:\s)/i,""); 
// replace "[Extern] - ", "[Extern] ", "[Extern]: "
  subject = subject.replace(/^(\[Probable Suspicious URLs\]\s)/i,"");          
// replace "[Probable Suspicious URLs] "
  subject = subject.trim();
}

// reuse first prefix and change subject
subject = firstPrefix + subject;
this.mWindow.document.getElementById('msgSubject').value = subject;

//GetMailBody script to replece selected text with template + that same text
var editor = this.mWindow.gMsgCompose.editor;
var text = editor.outputToString('text/html', 1);

switch(firstPrefix){
case "":
return "[[SCRIPT=EN-GoodMorningSemiFormal]]"+text+"[[CURSOR]][[FILE=/home/ReaderGuy/.thunderbird/signatures/EN-semisignature.html]]"
break;
case "Re: ":
return "[[SCRIPT=EN-GoodMorningSemiFormal]]"+text+"[[CURSOR]][[FILE=/home/ReaderGuy/.thunderbird/signatures/EN-response.html]]"
break;
case "Fwd: ":
return "[[SCRIPT=EN-GoodMorningSemiFormal]]"+
"[[CURSOR]][[FILE=/home/ReaderGuy/.thunderbird/signatures/EN-response.html]]";

}

EN-GoodMorningSemiFormal

var date = new Date();
if (date.getHours() <  5) return "Dear [[TO=firstname]],";
if (date.getHours() < 12) return "Dear [[TO=firstname]],";
if (date.getHours() < 16) return "Dear [[TO=firstname]],";
if (date.getHours() < 21) return "Dear [[TO=firstname]],";

return "Dear [[TO=firstname]],";

Any ideas? Thanks!

[SamuelPlentz]

How about: Dear [[TO=firstname|, dear ]], or: Dear [[TO=firstname|,\ndear ]],

[ReaderGuy42]

Wow that was quick and it works! Would you mind briefly explaining how that works? Because I'm not seeing a second variable for the second name.

[SamuelPlentz]

Have a look here: https://github.com/jobisoft/quicktext/wiki/List-of-all-supported-tags#to There are several Parameters possible for TO. In this case Dear [[TO=firstname|, dear ]], the first parameter is firstname and the second parameter is , dear

[ReaderGuy42]

Thanks :)