E-mail auto-responder oddity

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The Dreamhost web hosting thread below was started by sixscrews on 2009-07-08 23:00:48:

Post Reply? Perhaps this has been covered in another post, but I had an interesting experience setting/modifying/resetting an e-mail auto-responder today. I originally used the e-mail manager to set an auto-responder on a single email account. I checked its function with a couple of test messages - OK. My client requested changes to the auto-responder message, which I made. Subsequent tests of the mailbox resulted in no auto-responder messages. I then unset/reset the auto-responder flag (a check-box on the management page) and again got auto-responder messages. Conclusion: editing the auto-responder text while the auto-responder flag is ’set’ will turn off the auto-responder, regardless of status of auto-responder flag. Only a reset/set of the auto-responder flag will bring it back to life. Anyone seen this before? wb

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