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Sending automatic reply "out of office"

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Hi, I have a problem, when i set outomatic reply on my account email has send, but with wrong encoding. I 'm writting mail in czech language, so you probably wont be understanding. In the picture is a screen of mail, that was automatic sent, please help me, what i should to change in settings.

Hi, I have a problem, when i set outomatic reply on my account email has send, but with wrong encoding. I 'm writting mail in czech language, so you probably wont be understanding. In the picture is a screen of mail, that was automatic sent, please help me, what i should to change in settings.
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Hi, It does not solve my problem, I need change something like "Encoding".. You will see more in the atachment in the query.

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As stated in the support article, Thunderbird has no way of creating an automatic 'out of office' reply. You'll have to use the means your email providers offers. Check with them.

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I understand, bud i created a filtre rule: when I receive email, It will sand auto reply, everythinkg works Fine, but that mail, that is automatically send had bad encoding, that is the fail. And I dont know ho to repaire it :(

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Probably fix your default SMTP server in account settings to be the same as the open used for other email.

I wrote the initial copy of that support article more than 10 years ago, I still will counsel anyone asking about using an out of office responder to not use the filter as you may well find yourself blocked as a SPAMMER as the filter does not know who you have responded to. So if you are away a day and get 20 email from the same person and each gets a reply out of office, next thing you know they will have clicked a spam button in their mail client and all your mail to them will be SPAM.

Server side vacation responders will send a single response per email sender, a filter will not.

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Hi Matt,

thank's for reply, but i do not understand how do you mean it, or what should i change in settings of SMT (more in attachment). Could you please help me ? Nobody probably give me to the smam, it is company mail, and senders / receivers are mostly my colleagues. When first reply arrived to them, they will know, that I am out of office and they wont be sending mail's me anymore.


I have set secure SMTP with that I am sending mails normally, and encoding is OK.

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