On 5/1/02 11:29 AM, I wrote:

> You can also go to
> 
> Tools / Rules / Outgoing Rules
> 
> and set up suitable criteria for trying to catch your own Auto-Replies , and
> file them in a particular folder too. One way to do that would be add a
> third action to the mail Rule:
> 
>   Change Subject <Add prefix> <Auto Respond>
> 
> 
> Then, for your Outgoing Rule, make that the criterion
> 
>   Subject  <Contains>     <Auto Respond>
> 
> and the action to
> 
>   Move message to Folder


One more thing to bear in mind:

Rules which move messages or run AppleScripts do not allow other Rules to be
run on the same messages (they wouldn't be found, or would jam the
application), so you need to include all actions within the rule itself, AND
move the Rules with more restrictive criteria to the top of your Rules list,
above any others which may move them somewhere else first. So these two Mail
and Outgoing Auto respond Rules probably need to be at the top of their
respective lists, or near them. Just drag them up the Rules list (or use the
up-arrow key).

Before any of your your own Mail Rules are run on incoming mail, they are
first handled by the mailing List Manager (which never lets mailing list
messages get marked as Junk) and then the Junk Mail Filter. Uniquely, the
Mailing List Manager allows - on the Advanced page - you to Uncheck "Do not
apply other rules to list messages". This gives you a lot of options. That
particular one is checked by default, so you'd have to uncheck it if you
want to. 

If you haven't investigated the MLM, do so now. It's a great thing. You
should make an entry for all your mailing lists. in particular, you'll want
to know that you can check "Override the lists default reply behavior" to
"Always reply to the list, not the sender". If you check this for the
AppleScript users list, you'll never have to think about which keys to press
again. You can always just click Reply button, pr press command-R, to reply
to all mailing lists, including AS-Users. Option-command-R will _still_
reply to the sender if you want to, and shift-command-R to All. i just check
the "Override" option for all mailing lists, so they all behave the same way
without my having to think about it. (The only, little, demur, is that if
you change your mind after you click Reply and now want to Reply to All, the
underlinked option in the message header area which allows you to do this
easily does not appear for mailing lists where the Override actually
overrides, such as AS-Users. I've asked for this to be fixed for several
versions now, but they still haven't fixed it. it doesn't crop up all that
often.)

-- 
Paul Berkowitz


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