Thanks to all for your helpful responses. I wonder why people contributed the info in those two URLs I provided. Anyway, thanks to you, I am aborting my attempt. *~D/D*
On Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 9:50:14 PM UTC-8, Dodo aka Diane) wrote: > > Hi, Gmail Users-- > > First, I know there is no "auto-response" *per se* in Gmail except for > the vacation responder. I have searched Help and the Help Forum for what I > want to do and applied the suggestions I learned, but it hasn't worked yet. > I want to send one sender an automatic message that essentially says to go > away. Help said to created a canned response and set up a filter to send > that canned response by the name I gave it. I practiced with a friend, and > this did not work. When I created the canned response, I left the > Recipient field blank. But since my friend did not get that canned > response despite my instruction in the filter to send it, I tried something > else. I deleted that canned response and created another one *with my > friend's e-dress in the Recipients field*. Interestingly (or not), it > (friend's name) was not saved as part of the canned response. Meanwhile, > my friend hasn't yet opened that email from me to report whether or not > that canned message arrived. I am writing the group, admittedly > prematurely, in case anyone can see the error of my attempts to date. > > This was hard to describe, so I hope it is clear to you. Thanks for any > help. > > ~D. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
