http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Out of the office of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:10:08 +0300 Out of the office auto reply in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Depends a bit on your exact wishes. An OOR is supposed to be sent by your mail server, not by a mail client like TB. It's kind of a nuisance that your computer has to be online while you're away.
Biut suppose you want to abuse TB for that purpose. Do you want to reply to every message that you're gone? Do you want to reply to every contact that you're gone? Or do yo want to tell a selection of contacts that you're gone?
Let's go for one that tells everybody that you're away, but only once for every contact.
Create an address book group Out of Office.
Next you create an incoming filter.
Condition:
Address groups - Out of Office - do not contain - Sender
Actions:
Capture addresses - Fr om  = add to address group: out of office
Create automatic reply (With a template like this:
Hello,
You sent me a message but I won't read that right now.
I've left my computer and I don't know whether I'll ever return.
Love,
Me)
At the options tab you need to select two things:
-This filter is active (that's on as default)
-Continue processing with other filters (that way your normal filters will be run too)
Now place this filter at the top of your incoming filters and you've got a functioning out of office message running.

I've mentioned the template to show that you can define the text yourself.
The Out of Office address group will remember who got a message, so you won't send it twice.

IMPORTANT!! IMPORTANT!! IMPORTANT!! IMPORTANT!! IMPORTANT!!
There are senders/contacts that you don't want to tell that you're away.
For instance it's not considered proper behaviour to send out of office message to mailing lists, you can prevent that by telling TB what addresses don't need an OoR message. The easiest way is to place those addresses in the OoR address book group. However, next time you're away and you want to use this filter, you empty the OoR group and you've lost your list of non-addressable addressees. More elegant therefore is a second address book group, let's call it Maillists and add those addresses to that group and change your condition to Address groups - Oot of Office &  Maiilists - do not contain - Sender.
That way you make it easier to reset your filter and you're not as big a nusance as you'd be without this.

You might not want to send everybody a message, but only a lim ited number of contacts.
For instance you don't want to tell those guys who keep spamming you that you're on holiday and thayt nobody is guarding your house.
Then you create an address book group Close contacts.
Add those trusted close contacts to that group
Add a second condition to your filer: address group - close contacts - contain - Sender

Now I've mentioned the main issues for an Out of Office message by TB.
Good luck.

But I still think that your ISP's server is a better place for this if you really want to use one. IMO OoO messages are more a nuisance than realy important. For private correspondence they're not very useful. For business corespondence you'd better have somebody else monitoring your inbox to react on urgent cases.
23 June 2010 11:10:08, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9477/message31842/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9477/message31842/ Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:10:08 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Out of the office auto reply in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Could someone please give me a step by step guide on how to setup an autoreply when i am out of the office or on holiday.
Thanks.
23 June 2010 02:26:43, ally.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9477/message31837/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic9477/message31837/ Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:26:43 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client