I am using Gmail webmail in Safari and Chrome on a Mac. Often I want to send a new message to all the same people as in an old email in my inbox. My workflow for this is as following:
- click
compose - find an old email, and click
show details - copy everything in
to:and paste to new message - copy
from:and paste to new message - find my own address and delete it
This workflow is very tedious, and there is a high risk that I do something wrong when copying the recipients. Is there a better way? -some shortcut or something that allows me to use Reply to all as a way to make a new message to all.
EDIT:
It has been suggested to use Reply to all and then edit the subject. The problem with that is that the email does not lose its connection to the previous thread. I have sent a test to myself and looking at the source(Show original), I can see the ID of the previous thread under References: and In-Reply-To:. Maybe I should not worry about this!? -or maybe there are e-mail clients, that sort the treads from these pieces of information, and not just the subject!?
Example:
By replying to a message, and sending it to myself, the source looks like this:
The ID, ...QYT_Q@... is the ID of the message, that I made the reply to.
Best Answer
Reply to the email then delete all the pre-populated content?
A 'reply' is really just a new email that contains the same subject, sometimes with RE: appended to it.
If you just delete this content (the subject and the mail body) then there's no link between this 'new' email, and the one you actually replied to - except it'll keep all the To: and Cc: information.