Vacation mail
Vacation mail
- Subject: Vacation mail
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 16:32:10 -0700
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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