Michelle Steiner has written an AppleScript, which when attached to an Apple Mail rule, will auto-reply to your email and make sure that each email address is only replied to once. The developer believes that it will work in Panther as well as Tiger.

It comes with simple instructions in the release notes for installation and set-up, as follows:

Release Notes:

This script is run from a mail.app rule.?Ǭ†

Place it in/Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/Rule Actions/Vacation script.scpt.

Create an Address Book group named “Vacation”.

Set up a rule (name it “vacation”) with the following characteristics:

If Sender is not a member of group “vacation”
Perform the following actions:
Reply to message
Run Applescript /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/Rule Actions/Vacation script.scpt

Make sure this rule is after all the rules that operate on mailing lists (and that the last of them has “stop evaluating rules” as its last item–other rules can also have this action, but the last one must have it) so that it will not send vacation mail in response to mail sent to mailing lists.

Like MacResponder it requires your computer to be on while you are away (obviously). Unlike MacResponder, it is freeware and available from the MacScripter Repository.

Similar Posts:

• MacResponder: Auto-replies in Apple Mail
• Make an iCal event run an AppleScript
• Fix for Leopard Mail’s broken new mail alert
• Email to Yojimbo script with PDF support
• Mail.app rule to extract an email to a text file

No tags for this post.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 14th September, 2005 at 9:51 am and is filed under Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.