Autoresponders



Automatically setup a response to be sent to folks who send emails to you!

Note: Each sender's email address will only receive one copy of an autoresponse per day. So if you are testing your autoresponder and you send three messages, expect to only receive one auto-response.

What is an autoresponder?
Autoresponders automatically send a pre-written email to everyone who writes to a designated email address on your domain. It's a good way of sending out automatic infomration. And don't worry, the original email still goes through to you as well!

Examples:


 * You go on vacation for a week, somewhere without internet access. Setup an autoresponder to let folks know you will not respond to their email immediately.


 * You have a web page devoted to the art of Johannes Vermeer. 1000 people a day write to you asking for more information about this great Dutch painter. Setup a new email address, vermeer@yourdomain.com (or whatever you want to call it), then create an autoresponder for this alias, containing links to other Vermeer sites, and basic information about the artist and his life. Now, every time someone writes to vermeer@yourdomain.com, an email with that information will be sent to them, and you didn't have to do a thing!

In the Panel

 * 1) Go to the Mail -> Autoresponders page and the 'Create a new autoresponder' area.
 * 2) Choose the email address for this new autoresponder
 * 3) Choose the "From" line, who the autoresponse will appear to be sent from
 * 4) Choose the "Subject" of the autoresponse, or choose the option to quote the subject of the email that was sent in.
 * 5) Write the text of the email that will be sent out.
 * 6) Click the 'Add Autoresponder' button to save the new autoresponder

In the Mailbox Manager
Without using the panel, individual mail users can:


 * 1) Log on to the mailbox manager website at mailboxes.your_domain.com or mailboxes.dreamhost.com and scroll down to the Autoresponder section.
 * 2) Select the 'Activate Autoresponder' checkbox
 * 3) Choose the "From" line, who the autoresponse will appear to be sent from
 * 4) Choose the "Subject" of the autoresponse, or choose the option to quote the subject of the email that was sent in.
 * 5) Write the text of the email that will be sent out.
 * 6) Click the 'Update Autoresponder' button to save the autoresponder

Can I send HTML encoded auto-responders?
Yes, you can!

Just click off the checkbox next to "Is this HTML?" checkbox. This will result in HTML tags in your message as being interpretted as HTML for people whose mail clients have HTML capabilities.

You should paste your HTML code directly into the text area that says "Message:".

Also, don't worry that some people who get your auto-responder can't read HTML-formatted email! Your message is sent as a multi-part message--those who can't read HTML will get a plain text version!

How do I start or stop it? Can that be scheduled?
An 'active' autoresponder will send an autoresponse. Edit the autoresponder and uncheck the Active option to make it inactive. The panel has a Delete button if you want to remove it entirely.

Each autoresponder has start and stop fields. These are emtpy by default. Set an autoresponder to 'active' with a specific start and stop date, and it will automatically start sending autoresponces at the specified start date & time and stop sending them at the stop date & time.

Can I change my autoresponder message?
Yes!

Simply go back to the panel's Mail -> Autoresponders page or the Mailbox Manager website.

Click on edit to change your return address, message, title, etc. Click on the delete link to delete the autoresponder completely.