Instant message

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when people contact me I would like them to get an instant message such as
"Thank you for contacting Fitness Ballet I will collect your email shortly
and get back to you as soon as possible" Can this be done with Windows Mail
and how do I do it??
 
Bad move. If you don't read a message before auto-replying,
how do you know it isn't spam? It's not smart to reply to spam.

Gary VanderMolen
 
Kirsty said:
when people contact me I would like them to get an instant message such as
"Thank you for contacting Fitness Ballet I will collect your email shortly
and get back to you as soon as possible" Can this be done with Windows
Mail
and how do I do it??
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Its called an out of office reply.
Go to "Tools - Message rules" to create one.
As for replying to spam, the convenience of the automated out of office
message may offset the inconvenience of spam.
 
Iuvenalis said:
Its called an out of office reply.
Go to "Tools - Message rules" to create one.
As for replying to spam, the convenience of the automated out of office message may offset the inconvenience of spam.
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Right. Until such time as anti-spam organizations blacklist you
for what is called 'backscatter'. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpamCop
especially the sentence starting with "Since these addresses may be falsely
used as a return address on spam messages, backscatter caused by these
spam messages (including vacation messages and other auto-replies) can result
in an otherwise innocent server being blacklisted..."
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
Right. Until such time as anti-spam organizations blacklist you
for what is called 'backscatter'. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpamCop
especially the sentence starting with "Since these addresses may be
falsely
used as a return address on spam messages, backscatter caused by these
spam messages (including vacation messages and other auto-replies) can
result
in an otherwise innocent server being blacklisted..."
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but I couldn't give a hoot about spam & I use no junkmail filters.
Any crap in my mailbox is just ignored.
 
Iuvenalis said:
but I couldn't give a hoot about spam & I use no junkmail filters.
Any crap in my mailbox is just ignored.
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You totally misread what I said. You're on your own.
 
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