In a word, Andy, no. The email address wasn't wrong. Wow--thank you for all that experimenting on my behalf!
On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 7:25:02 PM UTC-8, Andy wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:48 PM, DEP/Dodo <depf...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > wrote: > > ... >> >> >> However, the topic now is moot anyway based on all the comments and the >> fact that I cannot send an "auto-reply" type msg. as I wanted. >> > > I got around to testing "auto-reply with a canned response". > > My results were mixed. > > First I created and saved the canned response. Then created the > auto-reply Filter that sends the saved canned response. Then I tested it, > by sending myself a message from another email account. > > I did get a reply sent back to that account. However, the reply message > was empty, not what it should have been. Hmm. > > Went back to the first account, looked in All Mail, and found TWO saved > drafts there. That's strange. They had different Subject lines. One > Subject line was set to the name of the Canned Response that I used, and > its body was empty. The other draft had the Subject line that I typed when > I created the Canned Response, and the correct body. > > I deleted the draft with the empty body -- but that means my Filter now > would auto-reply with a deleted canned response (which is now 100% gone, > not even in Trash), which of course it can't do. > > So I opened the other draft, and saved it again as a Canned Response, but > being careful to use the same name as the Subject line. Then went back and > edited the Filter to send this new Canned Response. > > Went to the other account, sent myself a test message, and this time I got > the right reply back. > > So ..... I think the take-away from this is that Canned Responses still > mostly work, but they never got the bugs out of them, or they've added new > bugs, over time. Well, it is still a "Gmail Lab" which means it is > experimental. It may take you a few tries to get yours to work. Keep > trying. > > Could it be that the Filter you created to test yours, had the wrong email > address in the Filter, so that it was never activated when your friend sent > you a practice message? Try this: Make the Filter do 2 actions: (1) Apply > a Label, and (2) Send a Canned Response. Then have your friend send you a > practice message. If that message doesn't end up with the Label, then you > know the Filter was the problem (it didn't match your friend's email > address). > > Regards, > Andy > > > -- 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.
