Topic: Autoreply Message, function provided by Darrell May

[Sam Chan]

Dear all,

I have applied the User Panel with Autoreply function into SME 5.6. However, the autoreply message does send back to the sender, but only for the first e-mail. If the user uses the same address to send an e-mail again, no Autoreply message will be sent back.

Does anyone encounter it? Are there any settings I can configure? You know, there is only an option "Enable Vacation Messages" with Yes/No.

Are there any other same functions I can use instead of this contribution?

Thanks for your attention.

Sam Chan

[guestHH]

The most up to date user-panel contrib is located here:

http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/userpanel/

Delete (rpm -e) the one you've installed and install the above.

[Sam Chan]

Hi Mr. Wang,

Is the command like this to remove the old version?
# rpm -e dungog-pkg-usermanager

In addition, does this new version of User Panel help for the autoreply function?

Thanks.

Sam Chan

[Sam Chan]

Futhermore, I have tried to install the rpms: e-smith-userpanel-1.0-10.noarch.rpm and e-smith-userpanel-1.0-11.noarch.rpm by typing:

# rpm -Uvh *.rpm

But it returns:
file /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.conf/90e-smithAccess30user conflicts between attempted installs of e-smith-userpanel-1.0-11 and e-smith-userpanel-1.0-10

Any help on it?

Thanks.

Sam

[guestHH]

You only need e-smith userpanel-1.0-11 not the other one. You're trying to install 2 versions at the same time. Remote -1.0-10 and try again.

Yes the rpm command is correct.

[Sam Chan]

Thank you so much for your support.

However, the Autoreply function will not send back message to the sender if I send 2 or more emails with the same sender... Any idea?

Sam

[Dave Liquorice]

>  ... the autoreply message does send back to the sender, but only for
> the first e-mail. If the user uses the same address to send an e-mail
> again, no Autoreply message will be sent back.

I'd call that a feature rather than a bug.  If  I'm mailing someone a few times and they have an auto responder set I only want to be told that they are "out of the office" once, not for every message I send them.

[guestHH]

I agree with Dave.

[Rich]

I'd thought that the reason that the autoreply only works on the first instance of mail per day is to prevent mail looping. i.e. I mail you (not knowing you are out of the office), then set my out of office message and go fishing....

[DJ_Ramjet]

Heh, saw an exchange server go down for 3 days because of that one....

[stephen noble]

vacation and autoreply have different panels and work differently

vacation will only reply once
autoreply will respond everytime
vacation is the better option usually...
but autoreply can be setup to send different replies to different addresses

regards
stephen noble
dungog.net/sme