Mac Mail: How to prevent out-of-office reply infinite loop

I'm in the habit of sending myself e-minders to my own email. I'm leaving town and enabled my out-of-office reply and later sent myself a message and it created a continuous loop of replies that would have overwhelmed my inbox had I not caught it. Is there a way to avoid this? I set up rules saying only to reply if "From" did not include my email address but the loop still happened.
Thanks for your input!

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hi, cyberfaithful:
I made a rule to reply to message automatically when I'm out of office in Mail.
It works fine.But if I send an attachment to any receipients. their out of office reply send the reply and the attachments (plus my original email) all back to me.
ny way not to send back the "attachment" if there is one?
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Hello,
If I am understanding you correctly, you are talking about keeping your auto-responders from going in circles. You send to them, them to you, and yours back to them.
If that is what you are talking about, then that should be pretty simple.
Any reply to your out-of-office message should contain the subject and / or body of your out of office message. Even if it is returned.
So, here's what I would do.
Insert some garbage code like: KXTGSW
either in the subject or body of the message that your auto-responder sends.
Then, configure your auto-responder rule to ignore (or not respond) to incoming messages that contain that text anywhere in their message body or subject.
Alternatively, you could also configure that rule to send out a different message (with or without your attachment) if it detects that your message came back.
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I hope this "fix" is not being rementioned or creates redundancy, however after hours of searching all sorts of foums(including the Apple forums ofcourse) I was unable to find a true fix. Simply put, I just got a brand new Macbook Air 13'' for Christmas 2011. I also bought a Macbook Pro 15'' back in late 2010. I was never able to get Yahoo! Mail configured even through methods of IMAP rather than POP or POP3. Oddly enough, on my Macbook Air and Pro, now, when I try to redo the Yahoo! settings, my Inbox would display messages for a matter of seconds and then the messages would dissapear. However, there was still a number next to my Yahoo! e-mail, accurately indicating how many unread messages I had. I fixed it like so:
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2) Once your Yahoo! Mail account is IMAP simply go into the Mail application on OSX (Mac). On the top bar of the Mail pane click on the "Mail" option in between the Apple sign and File. Then, Click on Preferences from that dropdown pane. When this window appears, Click on the "@" symbol that says "Accounts" right under it. This is in between General and RSS options. Under the left-hand list that says "Accounts", click on the "+" sign as opposed to the "-" sign you will see there. This will allow you to setup an account or additional accounts. A window then will appear with options:
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dechamp wrote:
What Mac Mail did was delete ALL inbox messages from my yahoo account, after one week from importing them to Mac Mail.
The Yahoo server did exactly what you Mail program told it to do.
Mail/Preferences/Account/Advanced - This setting is adjustable for each mail account.
I didn't know about this feature until it was too late. I have already unchecked it for future emails.
I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve these deleted messages back to my yahoo inbox.
Not Really, you could forward them to your account, after you've told your mail program not to delete the emails at all, but they will show up as being from you instead of the original sender. The originals at Yahoo have been dumped and probably purged. It would take an IT manager at Yahoo to manually replace the emails, not much chance of that.
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Also, I was wondering about the sync feature on the Mac Mail and what will actually happen if I use it. Does it apply to mail messages, or to address book and calendar entries?
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Apple's MobileMe membership will let you sync your Mail, AddressBook, Calender, personal website with iWeb, etc.
"MobileMe is a service that pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events over the air to all your devices. So your iPhone, Mac, and PC stay in perfect sync."
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
I wanted to use Mac Mail, see if I liked it or not, then decide to get a MobileMe account. However, this is still a side note, since my yahoo account is my main email client.
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