Hello everyone,
I'm trying to set up an autoreply script to work with Outlook 2000. I realize that you can use the Rules wizard to set up an autoreply to any incoming emails, but for whatever reason, that feature does not send using the "Reply-to" line. Instead, it sends using the "From" line. Since I am receiving emails from a FrontPage 2002 web form, the "From" line always ends up being a default webmaster address. I specified in my FrontPage form that I would like the "Reply-To" line to be a field from the form (the submitor's email address). When the message comes through to Outlook, the "From" line reads a webmaster email address (as specified in IIS settings I believe) and the message body contains all the form information AND the "Reply-To" submitor's email address.
Here's the NUTTY part. If you click the "Reply" button on the email message, Outlook automatically uses the correct "Reply-To" email address and sets you up with an email ready to go (just type info in the body and click SEND). However, if you use the Rules wizard to set up an auto-reply feature, the message always goes to the "From" address, which is a webmaster account in this circumstance. This is very frustrating. Microsoft articles claim this is consistent behavior with the "Inbox Assistant." That may be, but that's not helpful.
So, I thought maybe I could set up a macro or something to autoreply to these incoming messages. In the macro, I would somehow have to tell it to use the "Reply-To" line instead of the "From" line. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I believe I could institute the macro in a rule so that it only replies based off of a certian subject line ("MyForm_Subject" for instance).
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks tremendously!
I'm trying to set up an autoreply script to work with Outlook 2000. I realize that you can use the Rules wizard to set up an autoreply to any incoming emails, but for whatever reason, that feature does not send using the "Reply-to" line. Instead, it sends using the "From" line. Since I am receiving emails from a FrontPage 2002 web form, the "From" line always ends up being a default webmaster address. I specified in my FrontPage form that I would like the "Reply-To" line to be a field from the form (the submitor's email address). When the message comes through to Outlook, the "From" line reads a webmaster email address (as specified in IIS settings I believe) and the message body contains all the form information AND the "Reply-To" submitor's email address.
Here's the NUTTY part. If you click the "Reply" button on the email message, Outlook automatically uses the correct "Reply-To" email address and sets you up with an email ready to go (just type info in the body and click SEND). However, if you use the Rules wizard to set up an auto-reply feature, the message always goes to the "From" address, which is a webmaster account in this circumstance. This is very frustrating. Microsoft articles claim this is consistent behavior with the "Inbox Assistant." That may be, but that's not helpful.
So, I thought maybe I could set up a macro or something to autoreply to these incoming messages. In the macro, I would somehow have to tell it to use the "Reply-To" line instead of the "From" line. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I believe I could institute the macro in a rule so that it only replies based off of a certian subject line ("MyForm_Subject" for instance).
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks tremendously!
