I can always use the To field it self. But there is a purpose for CC and BCC fields. They stand for carbon copy and blind carbon copy respectively. To field is used for people who you intend to send. CC field is used to make other people understand you sent the email to the intended. For example, you can cc the emails to your boss to let him know that you are doing the duty. BCC is used when you don't want the person to know whom else you are sharing the email with and hence blind.
Coming to the point, like I said a while back I need to cc the emails to my group when ever I answer users' questions. I always use Apple mail client as I work in Mac environment. Recently, my university switched to Gmail. I don't have MobileMe subscrption with Apple. Which means I can't synchronize my mail clients on office and home computers which is a big nuisance. It costs $99 for year to have this subscrption. In a way it was a blessing in disguise that university switched to Gmail. Since it is a web interface I don't have to worry about synchronizing my laptop and desktop unless I want to store the emails for offline use. Even then it works but with some complicated setup which I will explain later.
In Apple mail CC field is always open. Where as in Gmail interface it's not. Which means I need to click everytime I want to cc the email to my different groups. I amsure you might be thinking what the heck. Right? Believe me you'd feel the same way if you are used to using keyboard all the time. You can do things fast if you are used to keyboard. So I wanted to have my Gmail compose window open up with cc field open whenever I want to write a new email or reply people. Fair enough. Unfortunately, it's not easy. Since Iike using keyboard I opyed for keyboard shortcuts in settings. Then if you press d the compose window opens up with cc field open. Great! But this shortcut doesn't work when you want to to reply to some email that's been there inyour inbox. Frustrating.
The next solution would be using some javascript. It's a nice solution since Gmail heavily uses javascript it is highly customizable. So before I started writing my own script with my not so co siderable javascript experience I wanted to google for it. First thing that came up was the solution I wanted. How exciting. Ha! Except that itdoesn't work with new Gmail user interface. So now I am determined to write it onmy own. I don't know how long it's going to take as I'vegot million things to do at my work.
I will definitely post it here as soon as I finish it. In the mean time I got to get off the bus before it goes beyond my place. Home sweet home.
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