Mail on Mac OS X

[fairy!]

I have a Mac running OS 10.4

I have the default email application... I think it's just called "Mail".

My question is, how can I set up an "out of office" notification on it?? You know, like you can in Outlook on a PC.

[cascarelli]

You can do this in Rules (Mail / Preferences / Rules).

Set a new Rule to 'Every message' then 'Reply to message' with whatever reply you'd like to put

[fairy!]

Ohmygod... you are SO clever! Thankyou so much!! :-)

[fairy!]

Ooooooooops... not so great... it just sent an Out Of Office email to everyone in my inbox... & I have 240 messages in my inbox :-(

[cascarelli]

Oops sorry! Thats weird....should have worked only on new messages coming in. Have to say I didnt test it myself......but with playing around with the criteria in the Rules box you should be able to get it to work properly.

[fairy!]

I'm a bit scared of it now... had a few nasty emails from clients telling me they've had 20 or so emails from me... ooooops!!

Maybe I'll play with it at home later... not so risky!!

Theory is good though!!