advise - can I send automated attachments(by invitation) from email

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gerryhandke

I have produced an eBook, based on a book of poems I had out in April,
which I want to send out via automated means when someone sends an
email to me, to an email address purely for this. I hoped it would be
possible from my yahoo acount, like those out of office responses, but
it doesn't seem to be (ideally you could put attachments with those out
of office replies. This isn't spamming, it's purely sent in reply to
requests.
Can anyone tell me how I might go about this? At present I've
opened an email account and left the pdf as an attachment in the inbox,
but some clown might mess this up at some point.
Thanks for all input.
 
This would best be answered in an Outlook Express newsgroup, or one dealing
with your email program...

OE6 specific newsgroups:
Newsreader link:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Web link:
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ws.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress&sloc=en-us

OE General newsgroup:
Newsreader link:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
Web link:
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...soft.public.outlookexpress.general&sloc=en-us

However, if you are using OE, you could set up a rule to handle this.
First, create an email with the file attached, then go to File...Save as and
save the email with the .eml extension. Then in OE create the rule -
Tools...Message Rules...Mail... In the Conditions box, check "from
specified account", then click the "specified" blue link and select the
account (you'll have to have an separate email account for this to work).
[Another thing you could do that would not require the specific account,
would be to use the rule to have specific words in the subject line or body
of the email message and instruct your users to put said words in the
subject line or body to trigger the rule.] Then in the actions box, click
the "Reply with message" rule, click the message link in the box at the
bottom, and select the .eml file you made earlier. That should do the
trick.

To use OE to do this with a Yahoo account, you'll have to have the Mail Plus
service, and then configure OE -
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-02.html
 
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