Mail Rules vs Vacation for reply

I found the mobileme mail vacation preference and tested it. It will only reply one time to each sender, & I want it to continue to reply to each sender for each email received until I remove it.
Can I use the Add Rules preference to do this??
I am reluctant to experiment with this until I get some advice. Seems that if I could do this with Rules, they wouldn't need the Vacation preference.
Thanks for your replies.

Bob R wrote:
I found the mobileme mail vacation preference and tested it. It will only reply one time to each sender, & I want it to continue to reply to each sender for each email received until I remove it.
Can I use the Add Rules preference to do this??
I am reluctant to experiment with this until I get some advice. Seems that if I could do this with Rules, they wouldn't need the Vacation preference.
Thanks for your replies.
My advice, FWIW, is to not set it up to reply to every email from each sender. What if a spammer sends multiple emails? Do you want to participate in clogging the net by responding to every spam email? And speaking of spammers, why send them any notification that you are on vacation? Why don't you set up a rule to only respond to known domains/senders? What about list serves or email subscriptions you belong to. List users do not want their lists to be flooded with your vacation notices.
Most email vacation notices are set to only notify a sender once. The notification includes a return date. What is the purpose of telling the same sender multiple times that you are on vacation?

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