I have mail templates with placeholders for names (ex. Dear XXXXXX).
Is it possible to make apple mail check the content of my mail when sending and to stop an email from getting send out when it finds my placeholders?
Check mail for certain word before sending
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Short of getting a different mail client on your iPad I can get you more than half of the way there.
Set up gmail as Microsoft Exchange server (leave the domain blank, add user and password and let it try to connect. When it fails, use m.google.com for the server and you can choose mail, calendar, address data to use ActiveSync)
Once the first mail sync starts, you can then choose days to sync and which subfolders will have push enabled. The mail badge count still only reflects unread messages in the Inbox, but you will get the mail notification sound/vibration for any new push message arriving in your selected subfolders. Your iOS device will be ready to go when you tap into the folders that have new push messages.
These problems usually come down to one of two things:
You have incorrectly configured the log-in settings for your outgoing mail server run by the company that provides your email service. Port numbers, authentication method, user name, password, and other settings.
The problem is on the end of the company that provides your email service. Their servers are misbehaving.
In either case, call the tech support line of the company that provides your email service and have them troubleshoot it with you.
Best Answer
Are you committed to using just Mail.app?
If you go to http://macupdate.com and search for Mail Merge there are a page of hits. At first blush, this one seemed to be right up your alley, but I may not understand fully what you are looking for.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11731/mailmergeapp Claims to use your address book, and a composed message, and it does the substituting.
If your outgoing messages are batched, take a look at external software for sending out email. In my other life I use Mail Chimp to send out news letters, but there are many many others, with various features.
A final possibility is to abandon Mail.app alltogether, and throw together a perl script that does the substitutions, and makes a call to /bin/mail for sending.