Hello Miguel, On Thu, 30 May 2002 01:10:11 +0200 GMT (30/05/02, 06:10 +0700 GMT), Miguel A. Urech wrote:
>> ...who responds with an out-of-office autoreply, her autoreply >> kicks in and says that she soon will be out of the office, the other >> system sends its autoreply... MAU> You can probably break that kind of loop if your auto-reply template MAU> includes the %REPLYTO macro with a different address, provided you MAU> have more than 1 account. It should work, but I haven't tried it. Some mailers always reply to the From address (even if that is in violation of the RFC's at times). An autoresponder set up with such a mailer would still create an endless loop. The best solution is not to set up autoresponders: Inform the most important people, for example with a circular-type email, that you will be out of the office from...to. If people, who were not on the circular's recipient list, still try to contact you, they will have to wait until you're back. At that time, you can apologise for the late reply and explain. Has worked every time over here for the past 7 years. If you think there are mails likely to come in that can't wait until you are back, you will either have to check your email during your absence somehow (most mail providers do offer web access or at least telnet access these days, and internet cafes are abundant even on Greek island beaches), or have somebody else do it. I figure if you are so important that you cannot take a 2-week trip after having sent the circular, you surely have a secretary or at least someone to replace you at the office temporarily. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in high school was my blood alcohol content. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.60m under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
