BB
Sat Jul 17 15:36:12 CDT 2004
A little clarification: The friendly users rule must test for for the sender
being from a friendly domain AND not being in my address book already.
-Bo
On 04-07-17 21.25, in article BD1F49B0.34DC%bo.boivie._DELETE_@bigfoot.com,
"BB" <bo.boivie._DELETE_@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Thanks Paul.
>
> Another point is a slight modification to the rule outlined in
>
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule003.html.
>
> My scenario looks like this:
>
> I want to send out of office replies to people I know, i.e they are in my
> address book, and to people from "friendly domains"
> (n.n@companyIdoBusinessWith.com)
>
> Also I only want to send one out of office reply to each sender. (In case
> one person sends me several mails during my absence).
>
> I have created a special group in my address book called "out of office"
> where I've put all addresses in my address book.
>
> The basic rule resembles the one described in
>
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule003.html. Instead of testing
> for the sender being in my address book I test for the sender belonging to
> the "out of office group". To this rule I have two actions. One is sending
> the reply like outlined in the article, and the second is to remove the
> sender from the "out of office" group. This takes care of people just
> getting one out of office reply. Of course I have to set up the group again
> next time I will be absent.
>
> To take care of users from friendly domains but not in my address book I set
> up a rule that tests for the sender containing the domain name in question.
> The action is to add the sender to the group "out of office". Also I have
> unchecked the "Do not apply other rules..." option. By putting the rule in
> front of the basic rule described above I will first add the user to the
> "out of office" group, and then the basic rule will send the reply and
> remove the sender from the group again.
>
> There are of course may ways to accomplish this, but this works for me. I
> hope :-)
>
> -Bo
>
> On 04-07-16 20.25, in article BD1D6B94.6C33F%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com,
> "Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote:
>
>> Good point.
>>
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>>
>>> From: BB <bo.boivie._DELETE_@bigfoot.com>
>>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
>>> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:30:31 +0200
>>> Subject: Re: Out of office reply
>>>
>>> A big disadvantage with server side out of office rules, is that SPAM mail
>>> will be affected too.
>>>
>>> What happens is this:
>>>
>>> You receive a SPAM mail with a faked sender address
>>> The out of office reply is sent to the faked and often non-existing address
>>> The server receiving your out of office reply responds that the address does
>>> not exist.
>>> Your server sends another out of office reply to that server
>>>
>>> The effect is that for almost every spam you will also get a "Message could
>>> not be delivered mail" in your mailbox when you get back from you holiday.
>>>
>>> If you follow the recommendation in the article below and use your client
>>> instead you could set up the out of office rule to ignore any junk
>>> classified mail, or even just handling mails from certain domains, or only
>>> senders in a certain categories (business for instance).
>>>
>>> Another great disadvantage with sending out of office replies to spammers is
>>> that you confirm the validity of your e-mail address (in the case the reply
>>> address in the spam mail is valid of course), which eventually will lead to
>>> your getting even more spam than before.
>>>
>>> -Bo
>>>
>>> On 04-07-16 01.33, in article 2d29d01c46ac4$1154c940$a601280a@phx.gbl,
>>> "fishboy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Excellent, got it working, thank you so much for your time Mickey!
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> If you're using an Exchange Server, you need to set up the Out of Office
>>>>> reply using Outlook or Outlook Web Access.
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise, see this FAQ article:
>>>>> <
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule003.html>
>>>>>
>>>>> Make sure that you read the note at the bottom. If you don't want to or
>>>>> cannot keep your computer on and internet connection active while you're
>>>>> away, you should investigate to see if there is a server-level auto reply
>>>>> function that you can use.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/15/04 6:11 PM, in article
>>>> 2d28401c46ac1$18d12a90$a601280a@phx.gbl,
>>>>> "fishboy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> how do you do this in Entourage?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
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http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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