Autoreply date selection

When creating an automatic reply in Usermin, there are several ways to do so, however they are not all standardised.

  1. Mail -> Automatic Reply - you cannot select the start and end dates of the auto reply
  2. Usermin -> Filter & forward -> Quick automatic setup - you cannot select the start and end dates of the auto reply (although this seems logical)
  3. Usermin -> Filter & forward -> Add new email filter - you can select the start and end dates

Can this be standardised? It seems logical to always provide a user the ability to set an end date, however the user should always be offered the start and end date if selecting 1.

Thanks,

Paul

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

For (1), do you mean the "Automatic Reply" link on the left menu? Because this should go to the same place as (2).

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Submitted by pixel_paul on Wed, 06/08/2016 - 04:12 Pro Licensee

I see. So the default option is 'Quick Automatic Setup'?

Would it be possible to put the start/end date into this too? Similar to the control within Virtualmin 'Edit Users'.

I suppose we could do that - the idea was to keep that page simple though, and allow the more advanced autoreply settings to be done on the Usermin -> Filter & forward -> edit file page.

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Submitted by Diabolico on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 05:52

Autoreply should come with calendar/date, days of the week and hours (like cron) if not what is the point to have it, e.g. it would come handy to set during working days from x to x hour and entire weekend. If you decide to bring some light to this feature it would be nice to add few more options.

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Submitted by pixel_paul on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 06:08 Pro Licensee

In my experience users do not know to go to 'Usermin -> Filter & forward -> edit file page' to set their auto reply. They will always simply click Automatic Reply.

Fair enough -I will add a field for this in the next release.

Status: Active ยป Fixed
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Submitted by pixel_paul on Wed, 05/10/2017 - 08:49 Pro Licensee

Was this ever implemented?

Yes, and it's in the Usermin version that we just released.