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how to setup "out of office" for a whole domain?

Discussion in 'E-mail Discussion' started by SoftDux, Dec 15, 2008.

  1. SoftDux

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    Hi all,


    How can I setup a "global" out of office type message, for a whole domain?

    It seems the auto-responder wants a from & to address before it will work.

    Even if I try and setup an auto-responder for just one user, I still need to specify a sender address. So, I can't setup an auto-responder that will reply to all emails that this user gets.

    How do you do it?
     
    #1 SoftDux, Dec 15, 2008
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    On the auto-responders screen, "Email:" is the field indicating where the message that is to trigger the auto-responder is sent to. The "From:" field indicates where the auto-response message should look like it has been sent from (usually the same as Email).
     
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    Hi David,

    That's the problem.

    On the Email: field, I choose for instance accounts@mydomain.co.za (the mydomain.co.za is a drop-down selection), but I don't know what to put in the From: field. I want the auto-responder to reply to all emails coming in for all users on this domain. This company is closing for the festive seasons and want to notify anyone emailing them about it.
     
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    I recommend setting your From field to be the same as your Email field. This process can be repeated for each of your email accounts you wish to set up auto-responders.
     
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    Thank you, David,

    I have just done that, but got an error back on the test email I sent:


    P.S the content has been modified to protect the real email address
     
    #5 SoftDux, Dec 15, 2008
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    Hi There,
    You have to set it up so the accounts@ address is an actual address, if you don't have it setup you could have it forward to discard under extra options :).

    Thanks,

    corster
     
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