Autoresponders

[Real Estate Forum]

If you guys have an autoresponder, would you mind using a different email address in this forum? We keep getting the emails everytime you guys are being notified of someone responding to your threads :)

Thanks,

Mike


P.S.: I have PMed everyone in private who does. I am just making it as an announcement so you guys don't feel like you're being singled out ;)

[Phoenix Realtor]

Mike,

This is not a "would you mind" situation. It is a must.

Auto-responders are the death of all forums. Every forum I've been on requires you to use an email address without an auto-responder.

SHould be the first rule in the registration process. Something like, "Fill in your email address here. Please make sure there is no auto-responder on this email address or we will have to delete it as it casues havoc with vbulletin."

[Real Estate Forum]

ok, I was worried about it. I don't want people to use an email address that they don't always check. My partner Martin is the one who pointed it out to me.

Thanks :)

[Phoenix Realtor]

It could very well have been the reason you were having soooooo many email issues at first.

[Real Estate Forum]

I was told the same thing - but I didn't believe it :rolleyes:

[HomeSurfer]

I have the same problem. I email my clients and I get autoresponders with a message that seems more appropriate to a prospective client than to someone they have a business relationship with.

At the same time, a while back some web guru was recommending you set up different email addresses for sites that link to you -- and no one can ever remember what they are, much less use them to sign in and handle admin functions for their links.

Truthfully, I've never found a use for auto-responders except to let someone know a form has been filled out and received, OR...unless you are on vacation.
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To answer all emails without an auto-responder isn't that difficult.

Step 1: Use the new MailWasher Pro version 3 as your spam watch, and most emails that you don't want -- don't even get to your inbox. Plus, you can preview them before they get to your inbox. I think it costs $35, and isurely it is affordable.

Step 2: Have four or five inboxes, then (assuming you are using Outlook or Outlook Express) create "rules" so that your form responses (which always have the same subject header) go into the different inboxes. Your business is already sorted and MUCH easier to handle.

Step 3: Create an "inbox dump" folder just below your inbox and if you don't answer an email in a day or two, move your entire inbox into that folder. That way your inbox is almost always empty and much easier to organinze and handle. Plus, if you haven't answered an email within two or three days, the odds are -- you probably aren't going to.

I get TONS of email, and this works for me.