| Here is a combination of a rule action and an Applescript for when you are on vacation or out of the office for an extended period of time.
It will reply to the sender with a suitable message, and place the sender in a vacation contacts group so it will never send more than one vacation reply. Of course, when you return, you need to disable the rule and empty the vacation group to prepare for your next vacation.
Rule criteria: Sender is not a member of Group "Vacation" To Contains michelle.org (of course you will change this; this criterion is to weed out a lot of spam that does not have you in the TO header.)
Actions: Reply to Message (configure your own text for the reply) Run Applescript /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/Rule Actions/Vacation script.scpt Stop evaluating rules
Make sure this is the last rule in the list of rules, so all the other rules have a chance to operate first. Having "Stop evaluating rules" in each of those (especially those that handle mailing lists) will keep the message from being sent to mailing lists.
Here is the script:
using terms from application "Mail" on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule tell application "Mail" repeat with thisMessage in theMessages set sender_ to sender of thisMessage set name_ to extract name from sender_ set address_ to extract address from sender_ end repeat set fn to first word of name_ set ln to last word of name_ tell application "Address Book" set new_contact to make new person tell new_contact set first name to fn set last name to ln make new email at beginning of emails with properties {label:"other", value:address_} end tell add new_contact to group "vacation" save addressbook name of new_contact email of new_contact end tell end tell end perform mail action with messages end using terms from
The only tweak I can think of right now for the script is to create the Vacation group if it does not already exist.
-- Michelle
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