Re: My apologies
Re: My apologies
- Subject: Re: My apologies
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 12:31:14 -0700
On 7/19/03 11:10 AM, "Ethan Rips" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Applescripters<
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Having had trouble figuring out how to get Entourage to generate
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out-of-office autoreplies just before I left, I came back at the end of the
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week to discover that I've clogged everyone's inbox with an endless supply
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of such messages. Please accept my apologies for that.
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Obviously, my failure to adhere to list etiquette rules is no one's fault
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but my own. Operating on the assumption that the best way to avoid repeating
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a mistake is to learn from it (shocking concept!), I have some questions:
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1. Now that I've turned off the Entourage settings that have plagued
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everyone all week, I've reviewed everything on or linked to
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http://www.lists.apple.com/rules.shtml in search of a NOMAIL command. Not
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finding one, I assume that the best approach is to unsubscribe for the
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duration of a vacation & resubscribe on my return, yes/no?
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2. Are there any Entourage experts out there who can tell me how to set up
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an out-of-office autoreply message that is sent the first time someone sends
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message to me, a la Outlook? (This is really a separate subject in a sense,
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although the lack of such a feature compounded the error dramatically, as
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you all know.)
Very simple. Enter all your mailing lists such as AppleScript-Users in the
Mailing List Manager (Tools menu). (That's good for all sorts of reasons.
Maybe you do it already.) Then, in your Rule for Auto-Reply, DON'T make the
criterion "All messages". Filter for:
<Is not from a mailing list>
It's pretty straightforward.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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