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

The lack of START date for vacation message rule is one of the main 
problems I have. Adding the start date would help me immensely.

On 28/01/2016 4:07 AM, Philip Slater wrote:
> 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 Generatedâ€, 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 Generatedâ€
>>>
>>> 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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