Mail Recipient Name Coding in Message

Apologies for not phrasing this properly, but I would like to emulate (on a small scale) the ability of mailing systems to place the recipient's name in the message. For example, Dear /name/, would then place the first name listed in my address book for that recipient on their version of the message, and would do the same for each.
Is this even possible in Mail "stock"?

umparrothead wrote:
Apologies for not phrasing this properly, but I would like to emulate (on a small scale) the ability of mailing systems to place the recipient's name in the message. For example, Dear /name/, would then place the first name listed in my address book for that recipient on their version of the message, and would do the same for each.
Is this even possible in Mail "stock"?
definitely not possible in Mail "stock". you can make an apple script that would do something along this lines but it won't be able to take an email directly from the "to" field in the message composition window. you'd have to either enter it by hand or select it in Address Book.

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