Hello, all you autoresponder fanatics, pro & con. This may actually be an RTFM issue or maybe I'm just sick enough to dream this up and be able to make it work. If you go to the Tools > Out Of Office Assistant, enable AutoReply, then Add Rule, put [EMAIL PROTECTED] for SENT TO, then check the DELETE box, you won't send an autoresponse to the poor souls sending messages to the list and you won't have to delete 700 emails when you get back. Note, you may have to monkey around with the "SENT TO" a bit; I tested using FROM as my email address but it should still work, even in a Microsoft product. I tested by setting "FROM" to my email address, checking DELETE, then sending mail to myself. Without the rule, I received the note I had sent myself and an OOO Reply from me to me. With the rule, the original note was deleted and no OOO Autoreply was sent. But what if I wanted to read those mailing list messages (all 700 of them) when I get back? OK, this gets confusing. In addition to checking "DELETE," I also clicked FORWARD and set it to my email address. Infinite loop? Not quite. Instead of receiving the original email, the OOO Reply, and the forward, the "DELETE" deleted the first one and the OOO Reply was never sent, so I only received the forward to myself. I then went the extra step and created another rule to move forwarded emails (FW: in subject) from myself into a folder called "LIST" so I could read those 700 emails at my leisure once I got back. I can't believe I just spent 15 minutes figuring that out. Please, somebody shoot me. Well, at least it's not a Friday evening. (Is it?) Alex -----Original Message----- From: Walker, Lesley R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Autoresponders Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > This is just a matter of people not setting up their Outlook correctly. It > can do a lot of things, even though it's a Microsoft product, you just > need > to take the time to set it up properly. If they would take the time the > list > wouldn't get them and neither would we. > Unfortunately it's not quite that simple - I use Outlook and have no control over whether OOO responses go to the outside world. It might be different with later versions, but in our case the only control over this is in Exchange. There is a setting in the Internet Mail Connector called "disable out of office replies to the Internet" - it ought to be set, but as with many settings in Microsoft products, it has an inappropriate default and needs to be changed. (if anyone wants to know more, mail me privately as this is way off-topic)
