I think the best way to deal with this is to keep a list of all addresses that a response has been sent to, and only response once to each address for each 'out of office' note.
Shouldnt be too hard to write a mailet to do all of this, with some web management feature. Daniel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 January 2005 14:25 > To: 'James Users List' > Subject: RE: Email Auto responder > > > Hmm..Is there a master list maintained of email addresses used to post to > list-servs? If such a list does not exist, how can an autoresponder know > for certain that it isn't posting to a list? And if such a list > did exist, > how could you keep it from being a list of spam targets? > > -Andrew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Goodey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 5:25 AM > To: James Users List > Subject: Email Auto responder > > Our office has been using James for almost a year now with very little > problems. One thing that has cropped up lately though is the need for > some sort of automated response that can be sent to people in the event > that a particular person is on holiday at the time. I would like to > avoid using the actual email client, since that would require the users > PC to be left on while they are away. > > Does anyone know of any system, perhaps web based, that can be > configured by the user to send an automated message back of their > choosing. I also realise that this should ideally not reply to > distribution lists. > > Please can I have a few recommendations, there must be something > out there. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
