homenet
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- Jan 5, 2009
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How to setup a basic auto responder for Gmail / Outlook Express
So I decided its time to give something back and I think this will be help people who are just starting to use CL and other ad sites!
The worst thing about trying to earn on CL when you starting out is having to reply to people, its a waste of time and can be soul destroying when you end up getting a load of abusive emails back!
So to setup a basic auto responder:
1. Type out your reply in a txt file and save it somewhere.
2. Setup your gmail account in Outlook Express, now setup your email address to have a full stop in it somewhere, so if your gmail address is [email protected] setup your email address as [email protected], this means that any emails you reply to will go out with that address as the sender. I'll explain why were doing this in a second.
(Note: You can have a full stop anywhere at all in your gmail address and will still receive emails, its an old trick im sure many of you have read about)
3. It's time to setup our rule in Outlook Express, so go to > Tools > Message Rules > Mail and click the 'new' button.
1.Set the condition as: 'Where the to line contains people'
2.Select the actions for the rule as: 'reply with my message'
Now underneath click on 'people' highligted in blue and type in your gmail address without any dots in it and click add, then click ok. Where you can see 'message' highlighted in blue click it and select the txt file with your email reply in.
Ok all this.
4. Setup Outlook Express to do a send and receive every 45 minutes or so (Tools > options > Send / Receive messages section), this is the basic delay, it will ensure that you will not respond to any messages every 45 minutes, you can change this value to whatever you like but one of the key things about CL is getting plenty of replies before you start sending any emails out so try to keep this value quite high.
5. Your ready to go, now when you post your ads on your ad sites use your original email without the fullstops. What will happen is you will receive replies to your ad and the message rule will auto-reply to them, but it will reply to them with your email address with a fullstop in. So if anybody replies BACK to you AGAIN they will not be sent out another auto reply (because we really dont want this)
Now you can use multiple email addresses for this by adding them in the rule or setup a rule for each ad (if your using a different email address each time)
I know this is very basic but its good for people who are starting out using CL/gumtree because its FREE and has a delay function and will NOT respond to the same person twice.
Enjoy
So I decided its time to give something back and I think this will be help people who are just starting to use CL and other ad sites!
The worst thing about trying to earn on CL when you starting out is having to reply to people, its a waste of time and can be soul destroying when you end up getting a load of abusive emails back!
So to setup a basic auto responder:
1. Type out your reply in a txt file and save it somewhere.
2. Setup your gmail account in Outlook Express, now setup your email address to have a full stop in it somewhere, so if your gmail address is [email protected] setup your email address as [email protected], this means that any emails you reply to will go out with that address as the sender. I'll explain why were doing this in a second.
(Note: You can have a full stop anywhere at all in your gmail address and will still receive emails, its an old trick im sure many of you have read about)
3. It's time to setup our rule in Outlook Express, so go to > Tools > Message Rules > Mail and click the 'new' button.
1.Set the condition as: 'Where the to line contains people'
2.Select the actions for the rule as: 'reply with my message'
Now underneath click on 'people' highligted in blue and type in your gmail address without any dots in it and click add, then click ok. Where you can see 'message' highlighted in blue click it and select the txt file with your email reply in.
Ok all this.
4. Setup Outlook Express to do a send and receive every 45 minutes or so (Tools > options > Send / Receive messages section), this is the basic delay, it will ensure that you will not respond to any messages every 45 minutes, you can change this value to whatever you like but one of the key things about CL is getting plenty of replies before you start sending any emails out so try to keep this value quite high.
5. Your ready to go, now when you post your ads on your ad sites use your original email without the fullstops. What will happen is you will receive replies to your ad and the message rule will auto-reply to them, but it will reply to them with your email address with a fullstop in. So if anybody replies BACK to you AGAIN they will not be sent out another auto reply (because we really dont want this)
Now you can use multiple email addresses for this by adding them in the rule or setup a rule for each ad (if your using a different email address each time)
I know this is very basic but its good for people who are starting out using CL/gumtree because its FREE and has a delay function and will NOT respond to the same person twice.
Enjoy
