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Set up an automatic response for email address change with Thunderbird

Aldar10 Posted messages 212 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
 Anonymous user -
Hello

I am going to change my email address and would like to notify all my contacts (only them to avoid unwanted ones) with an automatic reply as soon as they send me an email to my current address which is going to change

I have already written an email and saved it as a template. I am now in the second phase. In the message filters, I named the filter and checked "when receiving mail" and "filter after checking for spam"; then I am not sure what conditions to indicate that must be met by the emails received at my current address that is going to change, nor which ones the filter should validate; however, after that, I indicated: "reply with the template" and specified the name of the template

Best regards

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  1. Anonymous user
     
    Hello,

    I'm sorry, I don't see the "Reply with template" option in the actions available for a message filter.


    Where did you find that?
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  2. Aldar10 Posted messages 212 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   12
     
    In the dropdown menu under "execute actions," exactly the one you show me; but do I need to create a model beforehand??.. I don't know; however, I found it after following the procedure I indicated.
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  3. Anonymous user
     
    Hello Aldar10,

    Indeed, when creating a filter, you have the options you mentioned.

    Then I don’t know what criteria to specify that the emails received at my current address, which is going to change, must meet, or which the filter should validate

    For the criteria, I would use "From, To, Cc or Bcc" contains your current address.

    Try sending an email to yourself, but be careful to filter out unwanted messages that are often sent via Bcc before applying this filter by placing it at the very bottom of the filter list. Otherwise, you will give your new address to spammers!
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  4. Anonymous user
     
    Aldar10,

    Attention ! After further reflection, try sending an email to yourself but definitely not with your current address as the sender, otherwise you'll create a loop of messages:
    The "From" field contains your current address, so it generates a message to... your current address, which contains your current address in "To", which generates a message to... your current address, etc...

    Instead of the choices "From, To, Cc or Bcc", I would rather use "To or Cc".
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  6. Aldar10 Posted messages 212 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   12
     
    I don't quite understand: "From" corresponds, in my opinion, to the email sent to my current address that triggers the template message upon receipt, and I can't indicate anything because I don't know in advance who will send it or what the subject will be; "To" should correspond to my current address to which the triggering email is sent, right? Then how do I avoid sending the template message to emails that are automatic and cannot be replied to?
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    1. zipe31 Posted messages 34620 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   6 501
       
      Hi,

      I just think he wants to warn you that if someone in your contacts has an automated response programmed, you risk ending up in an infinite loop;-(

      See in the CCM FAQ: Drafting an automatic message in Outlook/Thunderbird
      where some issues are addressed.
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      1. Aldar10 Posted messages 212 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   12 > zipe31 Posted messages 34620 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention  
         
        Thank you, I put "Does not contain noreply and no-reply"; as for my current address which will change, should I put: "For" "is" "my current address" and "For" "contains" "< my current address >"? or something else?
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      2. Anonymous user > Aldar10 Posted messages 212 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        It seems pretty good for a start. To fine-tune it with time and experience.
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  7. Anonymous user
     
    When someone sends you an email, the "From" field contains that person's address. That’s why, upon reflection, I eliminated it from the settings.

    Then how do you avoid sending the template message to emails that we can't respond to and are automatic?

    Besides creating specific filters for these emails before the one that triggers the response to move them to a special folder, I don't see a solution.
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  8. Aldar10 Posted messages 212 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   12
     
    Here I put what I mentioned above in my previous message (so 4 conditions) and I clicked on "validate all the following conditions." What do you think?
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