CMD+Return to send Mail - a repeated annoyance

[managan1 (managan)]

Likely unrelated but I will add that in MS Outlook Cmd-Return is the key combo to send a message.

[doug2 (douglerner)]

Interesting. And as somebody else mentioned, Cmd-Return doesn’t seem to be a system shortcut of any kind.

Yesterday I deleted that key combination and added it back in again to see if it makes any difference.

[davbro (David Brostoff)]

@doug2

But if I just open Message drop down (where I can see that the send keyboard shortcut is correct) and go back to the message, CMD+Return will then work.

I have experienced something similar. Instead of deleting messages in Mail by moving them directly to Trash, I send them to a Pre-Trash folder, using the custom keyboard shortcut Command-D (the same as the Delete shortcut in Eudora).

The first time I use it after launching Mail I have to click Message > Move to. After that it works fine until I quit and relaunch Mail.

[doug2 (douglerner)]

@davbro

have experienced something similar. Instead of deleting messages in Mail by moving them directly to Trash, I send them t

Me deleting the keyboard option and then adding it again did not help. Sometime it just doesn’t work until you open the Messages window and close it again. Then it works for a while.

I declare this a Mail bug.

I would be interested in trying it in Sonoma as well, but I don’t want to upgrade to Sonoma until there is a good replacement for MsgFiler for filing messages and going to Mail folders.

[doug2 (douglerner)]

@jbr

Are you sure about that? I’ve changed nothing on my Mac and for as long as I can remember, the shortcut for sending a message I’m composing has (for some bizarre reason) been command-shift-d.

I finally upgraded to Sonoma today, since MsgFiler is working in beta and I’m a beta tester. The shortcut in Ventura had been command-d and now it’s changed to the even more annoying command-shift-d.

Sigh.

[doug2 (douglerner)]

I thought maybe CMD+\ was working, so the same problem.

So after upgrade to Sonoma the keyboard shortcut just got even more complicated. Why?!

Sigh.

[Halfsmoke]

Another data point: Ventura, Mail 16.0, “Send Message” shortcut is Command-Shift-D.

[jbr (Jeremy Roussak)]

And it has been, as I observed above, for as long as I can remember - certainly since I had to stop using Eudora.