Vacation Feature Request WAS Re: Out of office message when a member of a DL

Take it you are referring to the ‘easy vacation message interface’.

Phil


On Jan 27, 2016, at 9:20, Brian Turnbow <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Phil for the info,
> 
> Sorry for stealing the thread , but I couldn't resist asking santa for a
> belated xmas gift...
> 
> Please, please and please again
> 
> Add also
> 
> ("Current Date", "greater than", “#DATE"),
> 
> So we can have a start and stop date for the message and not have to
> activate it the day we want it to start.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CommuniGate Pro Discussions [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf Of Philip Slater
>> Sent: mercoledì 27 gennaio 2016 17:13
>> To: CommuniGate Pro Discussions
>> Subject: Re: Out of office message when a member of a DL
>> 
>> Let me go into the basics of the automated out of office/vacation
> message and
>> you can then make your decision on how you want to go forward.
>> 
>> So first here is the conditions and actions of the vacation message
>> 
>>      ("Current Date", "less than", “#DATE"),
>>      ("Human Generated", "---"),
>>      (From, "not in", "#RepliedAddresses")
>>    ),
>>    (
>>      ("Reply with", “#Message"),
>>      ("Remember 'From' in", RepliedAddresses)
>> 
>> If you note the second condition, “Human Generated”, that means that for
> the
>> vacation message to be true, the message must appear to come from what
> we
>> consider a human source.
>> 
>> This will help with the “Human Generated”
>> 
>> Human Generated
>> This condition checks if the message is not generated by some automatic
>> message generating software.
>> Note: this condition has no parameters, so the operation code and the
>> parameter value (if any) are ignored.
>> It actually checks that the message header does not contain any of the
>> following fields: Precedence: bulk, Precedence: junk, Precedence: list,
> X-List*,
>> X-Mirror*, X-Auto* (except for X-Auto-Response-Suppress),
> X-Mailing-List,
>> Auto-* This condition also checks that the message has a non-empty
> Return-
>> Path.
>> 
>> So a message to a group has the following: X-Autogenerated: group
>> 
>> Which means that your distribution list has that type of header.
>> 
>> 
>> Unfortunately, you cannot create a lower priority rule that checks to
> see if the
>> message is from the group and then reply to the message without it
> looping.
>> This is because you would have to turn off the groups ability block the
>> automated response and the inability of CGP to correctly store the
>> #RepliedAddresses of a group email.
>> 
>> I know I tried
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 26, 2016, at 19:19, Paul_Dudley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> It appears from out testing and recent experience, that if you are a
> member
>> of a distribution list, and you have an out of office message set, if an
> email is
>> sent to that distribution list, the sender does not receive your out of
> office
>> reply.
>>> Is there any way or setting to change so that the sender will receive
> your out
>> of office message if an email is sent to a distribution list that you
> are a member
>> of?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks & Regards
>>> Paul Dudley
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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