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A Vacation Auto-Reply Script for Mail
Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 08, '07 03:37:29PM

I thought "Stop evaluating Rules" would make it, well, stop evaluating rules.

So what does it really do? The whole idea of a rule that says "Stop evaluating rules" puzzles me. What happens after that? I assumed it would wait til next mail check, then start from the top of the rules list again. What's the point? What does it do?



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A Vacation Auto-Reply Script for Mail
Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 09, '07 11:46:27AM

I see, from Mail's Help, that "Mail stops applying rules to a message when the message is transferred to another mailbox, or if the Stop Evaluating Rules action is specified."

Hmm, I just tested that, and it's not true, so I have to wonder if Stop Evaluating Rules works. I tested by having a rule notice email from a certain address. The first action was: move it to a certain mailbox. The next action was: change the color of the message. Since Help claims the Rule stops evaluating when the message is moved, the color shouldn't have changed... but it did change.

Next, I tested by replacing the move action with a Stop Evaluating Rules action. Theoretically, the message shouldn't have gotten a color change, but... it did.

As far as I can see, Stop Evaluating Rules does not work on my Mac.



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A Vacation Auto-Reply Script for Mail
Authored by: ibroughton on Oct 10, '07 01:11:16PM

Well, get a decent hosting provider would be my response. If you run your own mail server elsewhere other than on your Mac, you really should know how to set this up anyway!

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The server is up but the site is down and I don't know which direction you are trying to go



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