Autoreply

I would like to know how to create e-mail autoreply setting on my Mac pro OSX version 10.8.2.
Thanks
Jason

Auto-replies, typically used to notify people about your absence, are best set server-side, because then you can usually define the time window during which they're active without needing to remember to turn them back off, and you can turn your Mac off - better for the environment and your electricity bill
If you insist, or use them for a different purpose, set up and use a rule in Apple Mail.

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I saw this happen about a month ago, but wrote it off as a "weirdness", however here's the second report of it. User sets their autoreply (vacation) timeout to say 120 (5 days), however, every message sent in same day from the same sender, gets a reply. That's not how it's supposed to work. I've changed the timeout to 3 days, same thing.
It doesn't appear to be a system wide thing (I was on vacation last week and mine was set to 3 days and there was no problem). Only certain users are affected. Where else can I investigate this problem? All info in LDIF looks correct. I've found the user.vac file for this person and it has recorded every message (even from the same sender) -so there's dups. If I look at mine from last week where it worked properly - there's only one entry per sender. Any ideas?

Patch 116568-99 is available:Hmm, I thought that's the last patch I put on - I'm pretty sure that's what I ran....
There are some autoreply fixes in there.
Also, "autoreply" is different from "vacation reply".
Autoreply will reply each time a message comes in.
. "vacation reply" will pay attention to the timeout
you set. Perhaps the user is simply setting the
wrong option?So, are you saying that when someone checks the "enable automatic vacation reply" in the webclient (messenger express not UWC), that does not write the maildeliveryoption=autoreply? I thought that attribute had to be there for the vacation message to work?

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libimta.so 6.2-3.04 (built 01:43:03, Jul 15 2005)
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Autoreply (Vacation) not working

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I'm trying to retire a .me account. I have an autoreply, or "Vacation", message set up in iCloud prefs. Even though the autoreplies are being recieved - most of the time at least - they are empty. The message I entered is not in the body of the email. The email client shows "This message has no content". So while the recipients are getting the autoreply they have no clue that the email address is no longer my correct email.
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Autoreply not working properly

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Autor reply messages are just collecting in the autoreply queue. Never sent to original sender.
Also serveral autoreply_master process are running.

Look in the autoreply queue. Examine the name of a few of the messages, there. What are the filenames?
All messages have names that start out with ZZ, until we try to deliver them once. The name is then changed to ZY, then to ZX, and so on, for every attempt to deliver.
If all the filenames still are at ZZ, that means one problem. If they mostly have been retried, then "tail" the ones that have been tried. The error that caused them to be re-queued will be there for you to examine.

Autoreply with attachment?

I've just switched to mail from Eudora and am stuck with something.
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We've recently moved from 5.x to 6.2, and users are complaining that autoreply/vacation messages are coming with the user's mailEquivalentAddress in the From: header rather than the email address that is in the Mail attribute. In our case, Mail is set to [email protected]
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Well, "noreverse" will prevent "from" address from being rewritten.
However, from your description of the problem, it's likely to have no effect at all.
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Is there a way to include a link in the standard autoreply rule in Mail.app?
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Reggie

Hi
You should have mentioned the message,if any, you are recieving from the system.
However , as one of the members mentioned its an authorization issue. Please check whether the approver has following authorization or not in the production system.
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IMS 52 default autoreply message

Hi everybody,
I was wonderring how to implement a default autoreply (or vacation) message for a domain.
The documentation states that autoreply options should be
written in the autoreply_option file but there's no such a variable available for this functionality.
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Thanks for any answer,
Regards,
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DML France

Vacation reply is designed to only send a reply to a message where the "to" actually equals the mail address of the recipient. If you use the aliases file to change that, you won't get responses. If you use rewrite rules to change addresses, you won't get vacation replies.
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mysub.ourdomain.com $U%$[email protected]
<snip> lots of stuff
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WARNING: Add sender's address failed: One of the specified addresses does not comply to RFC 822
I checked the auto generated aliases by dumping the IMTA_ALIAS_DATABASE. They are of the form: [email protected].
When the mail message comes from outside our subdomain, autoreply works fine. The message gets sent to our SMTP server. Here are the relevant lines from the imta.cnf:
! Rules to select local users
mailhost.mysub.ourdomain.com \ $U%[email protected]
mysub.ourdomain.com $U%[email protected]
<snip> lots of stuff
! autoreply
autoreply defragment subdirs 20
autoreply-daemon
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Here is a screen shot of the Mail Rule:
Here is a screen shot of how I receive emails from Paypal:
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Autoreply not working

I am having some problems with my autoreply. It is not working for any mail sent locally or from outside. I recently moved from dirsync to direct LDAP. The problems started happening after the switch. I keep getting an autoreply log file created in:
msg-instance\log\imta &
msg-instance\log\imta\orig
The log files have a strange name: autoreply.trc-FTWB08P01P44L10130
The log file in the orig dir states:
WARNING: Add sender's address failed: 10: Unknown error message
The log file in the imta dir states:
ARNING: imldap_address_to_entry : Ldap search failed
I also looked online at some other posts and some of them said to turn on Debug in the autoreply_option file located in the msg-instance\imta\config directory. I have no such file in that directory. In fact I have no such file by that name on the system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan

OK I believe it is finding the UID in my LDAP now because the Log is returning all the info for my vacation message but i am still not getting the autoreply. Here is the latest debug log:
DEBUG: get_options: Log Level = 3
DEBUG: main: Autoreply running 'autoreply' channel
DEBUG: main: channel <autoreply>
DEBUG: Calling domainMap with dc_root=o=internet,default domain=icpcorp.com
DEBUG: do_autoreply: channel = autoreply
DEBUG: do_autoreply: Fetching message 1 from <[email protected]>
DEBUG: search_sender: sender <[email protected]>
DEBUG: looking up [email protected] in the directory
DEBUG: class filter=(|(&(objectclass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(objectclass=inetmailuser))(&(objectclass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(objectclass=inetmailgroup)))
DEBUG: Filter=(|(&(|(&(objectclass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(objectclass=inetmailuser))(&(objectclass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(objectclass=inetmailgroup)))([email protected]))(|(&(|(&(objectclass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(objectclass=inetmailuser))(&(objectclass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(objectclass=inetmailgroup)))([email protected]))(&(|(&(objectclass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(objectclass=inetmailuser))(&(objectclass=inetLocalMailRecipient)(objectclass=inetmailgroup)))([email protected])))),basedn=o=icpcorp.com,o=isp.
DEBUG: imldap_get_entry_skel returns 0, entry type = 1
DEBUG: imldap_get_entry_type: entry type = 1
DEBUG: search_sender: <[email protected]> is a local user
DEBUG: search_sender: PreferredLanguage attr <en>
DEBUG: itext_makelanglist: Language preference #0 <en>
DEBUG: do_autoreply: Message from <[email protected]> id <[email protected]>
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DEBUG: Filter is (uid=dtripo)
DEBUG: imldap_get_entry_skel returns 0, entry type = 1
DEBUG: extract_rcpt_values: Autoreply service will expire on 20040912040000Z
DEBUG: extract_rcpt_values: User resend timeout 0
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DEBUG: alias = [email protected]
DEBUG: alias = [email protected]
DEBUG: extract_rcpt_values: Rcpt language pref <en>
DEBUG: itext_makelanglist: Language preference #0 <en>
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DEBUG: get_text_values: attr <mailautoreplytext;lang-en>, lang <en>, value <TEST>
DEBUG: get_text_values: attr <mailautoreplytextinternal;lang-en>, lang <en>, value <TEST 333>
DEBUG: extract_rcpt_texts: Using Internal text for '[email protected]'
DEBUG: ldap_autoreply_search_rcpt: Vacation text found for this user
DEBUG: rcpt_enables_autoreply: Header Recipient <[email protected]>
DEBUG: autoreply: Recipient not found in the header: [email protected]
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Ims 5.2 autoreply "activation delay" ??

Hi,
when a user activate his autoreply function, when does the iMS server take this in account ? there seems to be some delay between the time the user sets his autoreply (saying "start immediately", by setting a date on yesterday for example) ,
and the time the messaging server "acknowledges" it and starts sending out autoreplies.
i haven't been able to find out "what" triggers the server to consider these settings.
one suggested the dirsync process (but it doesnt look like it), in that case, what will happen when i switch to "direct LDAP mode" ?
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