Re: auto respond in mail

[James Devenish]

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on Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:43:42PM +0800, Kathryn Purvey wrote:
 I use Mail on OSX and wonder if you can set up out of office reply

Hi. If you are setting an out-of-office reply because you are going on
holiday, I presume that you won't be checking your e-mail during that
time. If you don't check your e-mail, then Mac OS X Mail will never get
the chance to send its autoresponses. In order to send auto-responses in
your absence, there needs to be some co-operation provided by your mail
service provider (e.g. your Internet Service Provider). That is, the
auto responses need to be done automatically by your mail server (not by
your desktop). The details of how to achieve this with your provider,
and whether they support configuration of this feature via Mac OS X
Mail, is something that you probably have to ask them about.

Re: auto respond in mail

[Shay Telfer]

hi

I use Mail on OSX and wonder if you can set up out of office reply

any one know?


If you're not running your own mail server (which you probably aren't 
:) check with your ISP if they can install a vacation message.


Make sure it's sensible so that they can make sure it doesn't respond 
to every individual post to the WAMUG and other mailing lists you are 
subscribed to.


Have fun,
Shay
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Re: auto respond in mail

[John Winters]

Kathy,

If you are getting Mail to check for e-mail regularly while you are away (eg
every minute/hour/day), you can set up some RULES to filter your e-mail into
different mailboxes.

Start by using RULES to distribute all your mailing list e-mails (e.g.
WAMUG) to their own custom mailbox. Once you've filtered out all the mail
from users or groups who would not appreciate the bandwidth consumed by a
gratuitous auto out of office reply, then use a final rule to deal with
the remaining e-mails by sending them to a custom Auto reply mailbox.
After the RULE action moving the message, add a second action (within the
same RULE) to SEND REPLY with the reply message text set to something
appropriate like Out of office until date

Alternatively, you could set up an apple script (based on the example
supplied in Mail) to parse the e-mail and set up a more complex reply based
on the status and/or group of the sender, which will either send back a one
liner, or a more comprehensive reply perhaps giving alternative contact
details.

You could also choose to automatically forward those e-mails (which are more
likely to be the ones you would most like to read while you are away,
leaving the fantastic WAMUG and similar lists to read on your return) to a
web mail address so you don't miss a thing while you're away!

All this is documented in the Help for Mail, and the same principles apply
to Entourage (my e-mail client du jour).

HTH
John
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 From: Kathryn Purvey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:43:42 +0800
 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au
 Subject: auto respond in mail
 
 hi
 
 I use Mail on OSX and wonder if you can set up out of office reply
 
 any one know?
 
 regards
 
 Kathy
 
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