Turning on Auto-Reply and Training Your Own Buddies ;)

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dynamitri
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Turning on Auto-Reply and Training Your Own Buddies ;)

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OK - I love the Auto-Reply option. What I'd like to do, though, is having the Auto-Reply send a message every single time someone writes to me. Right now, it seems to send a one-off message to the person that is trying to contact me. Is there virtually any way to set it up, so that it would respond to every message with the Auto-Reply text?

I have a bunch of buddies that don't seem to understand that "I'm not here" means "I'm not here", and keep on writing some stuff to me, apparently completely ignoring this. Should they hit the Auto-Reply wall a couple of times, they might learn to message me when I'm Available (Online)/not message me when I'm Away. Tried speaking to them, but no results, unfortunately. This is a bit frustrating, considering that Adium opens up a new window everytime a new converstation starts, so when I'm doing something with my Adium set on Away, and someone decides to message me (even though my status and Auto-Reply says I'm not available), a new window pops up, distracting me from what I'm currently doing.

The best combo would be shutting the auto-pop up and having a constant Auto-Reply to every single message (think of it as a little bot of some sorts), but since you can't make Adium keep the messages in the dock, I'd be more than happy with just the latter one, that hopefully will make my Buddies change their habits ;-)
Does anyone know if something like this is available? Tried looking at the Xtras for some sort of Auto-Responder, but no results :/

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Well, if they can't understand an away status, and a standard "Im not here" reply, I think that they are out of reach for any kind of treatment. Really, it is not your problem, it is theirs IMO.
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Seconded!

Apart from that: these friends might be sending messages for you to read later...? :)
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Re: Turning on Auto-Reply and Training Your Own Buddies ;)

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Okay, okay ;)
But - is there any way to get a constant auto-reply anyway, or does Adium not support it in any form, be it plug-in/an extra or anything else? :razz:
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