Hi, I recently turned on what I thought was the Mac equivalent of email auto-response in Mail to use as an out of office message.
To my absolute shock, the majority of people who had ever sent me an email then received 40+ emails from me (containing the message I'd typed in as an auto response).
This is my business account, so as you can imagine this was highly embarrassing, and having looked online it seems I'm not the only person to be on the receiving end of what seems to be this huge flaw with Mail (I followed these instructions by the way to set it up How to Set Up an Autoresponder in Mac OS X Mail - About Email).
ANYWAY - the problem I have now is that I am scared to open the Mail program for the fear that it might continue where it left off i.e bombarding all my clients with dozens of responses to messages they sent years ago.
I have switched the Rule off - but aren't convinced that there still won't be a number of responses already 'processed' which will go out as as soon as I boot-up Mail again.
Any advice on how to avoid this happening when I reboot Mail would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks
To my absolute shock, the majority of people who had ever sent me an email then received 40+ emails from me (containing the message I'd typed in as an auto response).
This is my business account, so as you can imagine this was highly embarrassing, and having looked online it seems I'm not the only person to be on the receiving end of what seems to be this huge flaw with Mail (I followed these instructions by the way to set it up How to Set Up an Autoresponder in Mac OS X Mail - About Email).
ANYWAY - the problem I have now is that I am scared to open the Mail program for the fear that it might continue where it left off i.e bombarding all my clients with dozens of responses to messages they sent years ago.
I have switched the Rule off - but aren't convinced that there still won't be a number of responses already 'processed' which will go out as as soon as I boot-up Mail again.
Any advice on how to avoid this happening when I reboot Mail would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks