Delayed auto reply

[Joel Pettigrew]

I have created an email that acts as a distribution list.
I would like to set an auto reply to wait like say...an hour, and then
respond with a template.

I can't see how to do this without using out of office, which requires an
outlook client to be setup.

Is there anyway to do this? Any suggestions?

If you have a response, just to ensure i get it, please reply to
(e-mail address removed) as well as the standard post.

Thank you!

 

[Joel Pettigrew]

Diane,

Thank you for taking the time to reply to me. That does help me... the
knowledge that I can delay it is step one. That tip didn't provide
instructions how to set that? Where can I find that? Would I use that in
conjunction with an auto reply rule? Would that work if outlook wasn't
running, or is it from when the outlook client receives the email?

Thanks for your help.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I have created an email that acts as a distribution list. I would

like to set an auto reply to wait like say...an hour, and then respond
with a template.

First, can you clarify what you mean? What's an 'email that acts as a distribution
list'? Are you talking about a mailbox and you want auto-replies to be sent
to people mailing that account?

Part of me really wants to ask you why in the heck you want to delay the
reply, but, whatev.

I can't see how to do this without using out of office, which requires
an outlook client to be setup.

Even then, you can't time delay an OOF message. It just goes.

Is there anyway to do this? Any suggestions?

Server side coding.

If you have a response, just to ensure i get it, please reply to
(e-mail address removed) as well as the standard post.

Sorry, don't have access to an SMTP server.

 

[VanguardLH]

I have created an email that acts as a distribution list.
I would like to set an auto reply to wait like say...an hour, and then
respond with a template.

I can't see how to do this without using out of office, which requires an
outlook client to be setup.

You're posting in an Outlook newsgroup. What e-mail client did you
intend to use if not an "outlook client"?

Is there anyway to do this? Any suggestions?

This might work:

Create a rule on outbound messages that includes the "defer delivery by
N minutes" clause. You need to ensure this rule fires on criteria that
matches only on those outbound messages that you want to delay.