On 9/11/04 2:04 PM, "Thomas England" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since I will be out of the country for a bit in a couple of weeks, I am > beginning to figure out the best way to deal with email. I will not be > taking a computer with me, although may well check online once or twice. > > I have been to the Entourage help page and seen rule 13 about setting things > up so that each person who emails me gets my auto-response once, but I still > have questions: > > I am on a number of email lists. Is the best course to suspend or > unsubscribe to these? It doesn't matter. Some mailing lists offer only unsubscribe requests. The only difference in most cases is that when you unsubscribe, you have to manually re-subscribe when you return. > I assume I have to leave a computer up & running. Yes. You'll also need to leave Entourage open, your internet connection up, and set up a schedule to automatically send & receive mail. Go to Tools > Schedules, double-click the "Send & Receive All" schedule, and change the occurrence to "Repeating Schedule Every _ ___" (however often you want Entourage to check for new mail and auto-reply). > Won't this cause my machine to respond to junk mail, which I thought was bad > idea. Yes, it will, unless you add a criterion to not respond to junk mail identified by Entourage. In that case the rule would be modified to look like: * Execute actions if all criteria are met IF From is not in group Auto Respond IF Is not from a mailing list IF Is not junk e-mail > I use 10.1.4 on Mac OS X. I use Earthlink and have about 7-8 email addresses > (some through dogbark.com) -- Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
