Mail 6.0 and auto response

According to default setting, mail 6.0 sends out auto response if Mail 6.0 is running. The reason of setting an out-of-office response is that most of the time mail 6.0 is NOT running, so correspondents will not be informed that they cannot expect an answer until a certain date.
Can someone help me with a setting that Mail 6.0 responds automatically even when Mac is shut off?
Thank you
Matyas

Mail cannot send a response if it isn't running. There's no setting that will change that. However, depending on what service you use for email, it can be done at the server level. For example, if you use iCloud, go here and log on. Click on the Mail icon and then on the gear icon in the top right corner. Select Preferences and then select Vacation.

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It works for me, so maybe there's something wrong with your Rule. Maybe you should try having the To condition be so that it Contains your name instead of beginning with it.
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I have a shared mailbox set up that receives emails that are sent to 3 different addresses:
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Is there a way that I can create a rule to send an automated response to 2 of the 3 addresses?
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Hi
we can enable the shared mailbox in ADUC and create Outlook rules for it in Outlook to achieve it. please follow these steps:
1. In Active Directory Users and Computers, right-click the shared mailbox and click Enable Account.
2. Configure the Outlook account for the shared mailbox in Outlook.
3. Click Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts.
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Select exception(s) (if necessary) of the Outlook Rule - (“except if from people or public group“)
5. Apply the auto reply rules for this shared mailbox.
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this has been ongoing for a few months, even before I upgraded to mountain Lion. I use mail from my macbook pro and have been using mail attachment tamer without problem for a long time.
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Hey Barbara Rohrer,
Thanks for the question, and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It might be helpful to delete and re-add your account from the Preferences menu. Please note, that if the account is setup as POP, this may remove the email messages from your computer.
For more help, see http://www.apple.com/support/mail/
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auto response email template is not picked up from categorization schema, but from rule for the auto response in ruile modeler.
i have prepared a rule for auto response in rule modeler where i have set condition as top scoring category equals the value "ERMS auto response" then action as email form, outgoing email , categorization schema, inline has been set.
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So, if I'm understanding correctly, you're not currently having this problem, but did before you set up iCloud? Or is your old MobileMe auto-responder still functioning, but not showing up in iCloud in Mail's rules or vacation message settings? If the latter, you'll need to contact Apple about that, so they can fix it on their end.
I don't remember how it worked in MobileMe, but in iCloud, you can set up some very basic rules and there is a separate setting for a vacation message. An auto-responder provided by the server like that ought to be okay-ish. It shouldn't create mail loops, since the people who wrote the code for it know their stuff when it comes to e-mail protocols. However, if you used a rule that you created yourself (which doesn't look possible on iCloud, as there's not a "reply" action), that could cause mail loops.
Of course, even the best auto-responder is only okay-ish, because there are going to be messages that you get that you wouldn't want it to reply to, but it's going to anyway. Like spam that didn't get caught by spam filters.
As to the forums, I'd guess this would be best posted in one of the iCloud forums, probably the iCloud on my Mac forum. I can ask the hosts to move this topic there, but in the future, what you want to do is go to the home page and scroll down to the list of "communities" (ie, forums) and select one first.
Thanks for the info on how you posted... many of us regulars have been wondering why so many misplaced posts have been showing up in this forum lately! That's valuable information that we can use to alert the hosts to a potential problem with the interface of the site.

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Just as all cars have a radiator, you can not take any radiator and just put it in, they are subtly different even though they perform the same purpose. Same goes for the various vacation responders, They perform the same purpose but they differ between email server software brands.
Thunderbird leaves it to the server end to expose the functionality, as they are really the only ones who understand what they did. Outlook exposes the option and mostly greys it out.

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Can I set up an "auto response" in Mail while I'm away on vacation?

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