Out of Office
Peter
Id there a method of setting an 'Out of Office' rule that informs a sender when my PC is
switched off? [Much like Outlook :-( ]
Regards
G. R. Woodring
If the PC is switched off, NO email client (or any other program )can do
anything. If Outlook does this it is either magic, or is accessing a feature on
the server.
Is this an office network environment?
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G. R. Woodring
squaredancer
to generate the following:? :
when the PC is switched off".... errr, ummmm :-! yes!
reg
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T
Not a good idea period.
Most of the time after each person receives the same Out of Office
thing fifty times each day they are ready to reach through the other end
of the connection and choke the sender within an inch of their life.
I know I and others even on newsgroups sometimes 50 and 60 copies of Out
of office, Out of Office.
If its part of an Office Intranet system fine. But for the "Internet"
persons using an out of Office routine should be placed in front ofa
firing squad and shot.
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Peter
Peter wrote:
Hello all,
Id there a method of setting an 'Out of Office' rule that informs a sender when my PC is switched off? [Much like Outlook :-( ]
Regards
Not a good idea period.
Most of the time after each person receives the same Out of Office thing fifty times each day they are ready to reach through the other end of the connection and choke the sender within an inch of their life.
I know I and others even on newsgroups sometimes 50 and 60 copies of Out of office, Out of Office.
If its part of an Office Intranet system fine. But for the "Internet" persons using an out of Office routine should be placed in front ofa firing squad and shot.
It's a NO, then ;-)
Terry R.
the keyboard
> Peter wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Id there a method of setting an 'Out of Office' rule that informs a
>> sender when my PC is switched off? [Much like Outlook :-( ]
>>
>> Regards
>
>
> Not a good idea period.
> Most of the time after each person receives the same Out of Office
> thing fifty times each day they are ready to reach through the other end
> of the connection and choke the sender within an inch of their life.
>
> I know I and others even on newsgroups sometimes 50 and 60 copies of Out
> of office, Out of Office.
>
> If its part of an Office Intranet system fine. But for the "Internet"
> persons using an out of Office routine should be placed in front ofa
> firing squad and shot.
>
I don't know how you're getting multiple copies from the same email
address. Exchange's default to Out of the office replies outside a LAN
is only set to reply once to an email address. So if you sent 5 email,
you'd only get one reply. Are you sure you're not receiving them from
different addresses?
--
Terry R.
Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
Jordon
>> Id there a method of setting an 'Out of Office' rule that informs a
>> sender when my PC is switched off? [Much like Outlook :-( ]
> Not a good idea period.
> Most of the time after each person receives the same Out of Office thing
> fifty times each day they are ready to reach through the other end of
> the connection and choke the sender within an inch of their life.
>
> I know I and others even on newsgroups sometimes 50 and 60 copies of Out
> of office, Out of Office.
>
> If its part of an Office Intranet system fine. But for the "Internet"
> persons using an out of Office routine should be placed in front ofa
> firing squad and shot.
In my profession it's critical that an out of office reply be sent. We
accept orders from customers by email that often have to be worked on
today, or tomorrow. If someone is on vacation or is out sick and an
autoresponder isn't sent, then that customer will go to our competitor
when he finds out that we didn't get the job done on time and that
customer gets assessed $200 in penalty fees from a third party because
we missed our deadline.
--
Jordon
Ron K.
tower to announce :
Since Thunderbird does not have an autoresponder ability it is not
appropriate for mission critical uses such as yours. It's design intent
is targeted more at the consumer level. There have been some extensions
which add on features for commercial users when the back-end code has
supporting interfaces.
--
Ron K.
Don't be a fonted, it's just type casting
Nir
> In my profession it's critical that an out of office reply be sent.
> We accept orders from customers by email that often have to be worked
> on today, or tomorrow. If someone is on vacation or is out sick and
> an autoresponder isn't sent, then that customer will go to our
> competitor when he finds out that we didn't get the job done on time
> and that customer gets assessed $200 in penalty fees from a third
> party because we missed our deadline.
>
1.I'm not sure whether it will work properly so you need to test it
before using .
2.This will not work if computer is switched off :)
Goto Tools>Message filters>select mail account>New.
Filter name : <Any name>
Match any of the following
(if you want to sent autoreply to any mail)
To - Is - <Account that will receive mails from customer>
Perform this action :
Reply with template - <select template>
(if you want to sent autoreply to those whose mail id is listed in
address book)
From - Is in my address book - <Select address book>
Perform this action :
Reply with template - <select template>
In normal case , disable this filter rule by unchecking the check box ,
right to it.
when needed , check that check box to enable that filter.
[ you may also see
"http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=368312&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&highlight=office&start=0"]
Jordon , as Ron K. has already mentioned that you are willing to use
this feature for serious purpose so i suggest to use your mail servers
auto reply feature (like this one
"http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&hl=en&answer=25922"
). I think that will be much safer way than the above one.
Jordon
> Jordon wrote:
>
>> In my profession it's critical that an out of office reply be sent.
Nir,
I'm not the OP and I do use the our mail servers autoresponder. I just
had to add my 2ยข to Phillips contention that all users of autoresponders
should be shot.
I hope the OP can use you're advise.
--
Jordon
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T
> On 5/21/2007 10:48 AM On a whim, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T pounded out on
> the keyboard
>
>> Peter wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Id there a method of setting an 'Out of Office' rule that informs a
>>> sender when my PC is switched off? [Much like Outlook :-( ]
>>>
>>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Not a good idea period.
>> Most of the time after each person receives the same Out of Office
>> thing fifty times each day they are ready to reach through the other
>> end of the connection and choke the sender within an inch of their life.
>>
>> I know I and others even on newsgroups sometimes 50 and 60 copies of
>> Out of office, Out of Office.
>>
>> If its part of an Office Intranet system fine. But for the "Internet"
>> persons using an out of Office routine should be placed in front ofa
>> firing squad and shot.
>>
>
> I don't know how you're getting multiple copies from the same email
> address. Exchange's default to Out of the office replies outside a LAN
> is only set to reply once to an email address. So if you sent 5 email,
> you'd only get one reply. Are you sure you're not receiving them from
> different addresses?
>
>
>
>
I've seen case especial when set to work on a newsgroup every time a
person replies to a thread they participated in an out of office reply
shows up for every person replying and depending upon how prolific a
responder the person is as many as 56-60 replies end up being sorry we
are out of the office at this time. By the time you've read through the
60th copy your ready to strangle someone.
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T
Business setting It should be okay.
But It "should be set ONLY for email". I've come across many cases where
someone say it set "universally". So that it does so even in newsgroups.
And each time you reply to one you get another out of Office reply. Once
its sent once to a given email or newsgroup it should die and never come
back for a given message. But Its like the the Eveready Bunny. It keeps
going, and going, and going.
Terry R.
the keyboard
> Jordon wrote:
Universally? Not quite.
1. Exchange only sends out one reply per email address.
2. The reason newsgroups are hit is most likely because they belong to a
list, not subscribed directly to a group.
Ron Hunter
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Id there a method of setting an 'Out of Office' rule that informs a
>> sender when my PC is switched off? [Much like Outlook :-( ]
>>
>> Regards
>
>
> Not a good idea period.
> Most of the time after each person receives the same Out of Office thing
> fifty times each day they are ready to reach through the other end of
> the connection and choke the sender within an inch of their life.
>
> I know I and others even on newsgroups sometimes 50 and 60 copies of Out
> of office, Out of Office.
>
> If its part of an Office Intranet system fine. But for the "Internet"
> persons using an out of Office routine should be placed in front ofa
> firing squad and shot.
>
really a good idea, security-wise.
--
Ron Hunter rphu...@charter.net
Ron Hunter
Jordon, the question, as stated, was ludicrous on the surface. If one's
computer is off, it can't receive, or send ANYTHING, and even the server
can't know this. ONLY at the server level can workable 'out of office'
messages be feasible, should the user turn off his computer.
Office/business environments have substantially different needs, and
requirements, from home users, and users of those systems need programs
designed primarily for business, which certainly is NOT Thunderbird.
Should you be using a system in an environment that can incur $200 costs
for a missed, or misrouted, message, it behooves one to use a tool
designed for that environment, not a free, open-source solution.
--
Ron Hunter rphu...@charter.net
Jordon
> Jordon, the question, as stated, was ludicrous on the surface. If one's
> computer is off, it can't receive, or send ANYTHING, and even the server
> can't know this. ONLY at the server level can workable 'out of office'
> messages be feasible, should the user turn off his computer.
> Office/business environments have substantially different needs, and
> requirements, from home users, and users of those systems need programs
> designed primarily for business, which certainly is NOT Thunderbird.
> Should you be using a system in an environment that can incur $200 costs
> for a missed, or misrouted, message, it behooves one to use a tool
> designed for that environment, not a free, open-source solution.
I agree 100%.
--
Jordon
Jordon
> It may be fine for "Email" and I question that. But I suppose in a
> Business setting It should be okay.
>
> But It "should be set ONLY for email". I've come across many cases where
> someone say it set "universally". So that it does so even in newsgroups.
I've been using the usenet for about 10 years and I've only seen that
happen once. I think it was here. I think Terry is correct. When it
happens in a newsgroup it's probably because they receive posts from a
mailing list. I've never understood why people elect to receive
newsgroup messages in email form when there's so many ways to turn it on
and off whenever you want.
--
jordon
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
Users with limited dial-up access where they literally "pay through the
nose" and sometimes "by the hour" elect to use list-mail in "digest
mode" that allows you to grab ALL daily messages at once, downloaded
once and read OFFline.
--
Jay Garcia Netscape/Mozilla Champion
UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
Jordon
> Users with limited dial-up access where they literally "pay through the
> nose" and sometimes "by the hour" elect to use list-mail in "digest
> mode" that allows you to grab ALL daily messages at once, downloaded
> once and read OFFline.
Why couldn't you do that with a news server? If the dial-up ISP doesn't
have a news server, Teranews is a $3.95 one time fee.
--
Jordon
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
There's a reason for everything, best to ask someone under those
restrictions.
john sumner
news:LfadnWYtMuVJ9snb...@mozilla.org:
>
> Why couldn't you do that with a news server? If the dial-up ISP doesn't
> have a news server, Teranews is a $3.95 one time fee.
>
> --
> Jordon
>
Yes but teranews is always down or haveing some other problem
squaredancer
generate the following:? :
reg
john sumner
news:gbKdne49Cuq9N8nb...@mozilla.org:
>
> and I ain't got $3.95 either!
>
> reg
>
aioe which is full of trolls is more reliable then teranews