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Auto-respond FAIL

Posted: 8 June 2008

Before I left for San Francisco last Friday, I thought I would be smart and write an auto-response rule in Apple Mail instead of Groupwise. I set my mail rule to send an auto-response message to any email received in my Groupwise inbox that was addressed to me. This worked, but a little too well. What I should of done is made the rule send an auto-response message to any new email received. Oops. There are 5900+ emails in my inbox. I think Apple Mail sent a message to all of them.

So sorry to everyone who has been getting heaps of auto-response messages from me lately. I've turned the rule off, and won't be setting another one anytime soon.

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