On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:48 PM, DEP/Dodo <depfah...@gmail.com> wrote:
... > > > However, the topic now is moot anyway based on all the comments and the > fact that I cannot send an "auto-reply" type msg. as I wanted. > I got around to testing "auto-reply with a canned response". My results were mixed. First I created and saved the canned response. Then created the auto-reply Filter that sends the saved canned response. Then I tested it, by sending myself a message from another email account. I did get a reply sent back to that account. However, the reply message was empty, not what it should have been. Hmm. Went back to the first account, looked in All Mail, and found TWO saved drafts there. That's strange. They had different Subject lines. One Subject line was set to the name of the Canned Response that I used, and its body was empty. The other draft had the Subject line that I typed when I created the Canned Response, and the correct body. I deleted the draft with the empty body -- but that means my Filter now would auto-reply with a deleted canned response (which is now 100% gone, not even in Trash), which of course it can't do. So I opened the other draft, and saved it again as a Canned Response, but being careful to use the same name as the Subject line. Then went back and edited the Filter to send this new Canned Response. Went to the other account, sent myself a test message, and this time I got the right reply back. So ..... I think the take-away from this is that Canned Responses still mostly work, but they never got the bugs out of them, or they've added new bugs, over time. Well, it is still a "Gmail Lab" which means it is experimental. It may take you a few tries to get yours to work. Keep trying. Could it be that the Filter you created to test yours, had the wrong email address in the Filter, so that it was never activated when your friend sent you a practice message? Try this: Make the Filter do 2 actions: (1) Apply a Label, and (2) Send a Canned Response. Then have your friend send you a practice message. If that message doesn't end up with the Label, then you know the Filter was the problem (it didn't match your friend's email address). Regards, Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
