posted on January 10, 2001 12:52:35 PM new
I am going out of town next week and need to put up some auctions before I go. In my TOS I will let bidders know that I am out of town and won't be able to respond to email.
Should I put another email address on the TOS like my hotmail account to I can check messages from there or should I just put an auto-reply on my email to remind people that I am out of town? If I do the auto-reply how do I do that?
posted on January 10, 2001 07:07:33 PM new
FYI, hotmail:
If you do configure hotmail to pick up your POP mail, you will have to decide if you want to leave the mail on the server or pull it into hotmail.
If you leave the mail on the server, you will be able to pick it up with you regular email program.
If you pull it into hotmail, that is the only place it will be. You will have to send it to yourself to get it into your regular email program.
Greg
P.S. I do email support for a large company, and I can't remember how many times I have had users call and complain their mail was gone. Inquire futher and find they have picked it up from home with a (incorrectly configured) pop mail client and it is no longer on the corp server.
They are not very happy when they are told they have to send 500 messages to themselves. Oh well, it forces people to clean up their inbox and keep only the really important email.
