953950 - Auto - Reply

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Other, enhancement)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 513 by Chris Thomas <chrismt AT rocketmail.com> at 2010-09-17 09:32:00 UTC ***

Nowaday some IMs have this feature

If you are away or don't want to chat, you can set a auto reply feature....

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 513 at 2010-09-17 12:12:57 UTC ***

How does this differ from putting up an away message? Isn't that an auto-reply?

Comment 2

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 513 by Chris Thomas <chrismt AT rocketmail.com> at 2010-09-17 12:36:03 UTC ***

You mean, setting the green available icon to red unavailable icon?

Auto Reply is more than that.

Whenever a user sends an IM, he gets an IM back

When some one trying to contact you when you are logged in and your status is other than online.

They can be  messages sent with very simple verbiage, like: "I'm currently away from my computer but I will get back to you as soon as possible". You can customize the message to include your own text and may be mobile number to contact you.

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 513 at 2010-09-17 12:45:01 UTC ***

When you set your message to Unavailable it will auto-respond with whatever text you put next to it (when you change status the textbox becomes editable). It might not respond to the same user everytime, but it will respond to them (at least the first time) with your message. I don't see how this differs from what you're asking.

Also, "Unavailable" does have you logged in and "Away". "Offline" logs you out.

Comment 4

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 513 at 2010-09-17 13:00:31 UTC ***

So apparently not all protocols do automatically auto-reply. Sorry for this misunderstanding. Some of them just set you as away with a status. Are you asking for the message to be sent (via Instantbird instead of the protocol) in those situations?

Regardless a bit more background about your problem would help. What are you doing, what is happening, what do you expect to happen? And what protocols you're using?

Comment 5

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 513 by Chris Thomas <chrismt AT rocketmail.com> at 2010-09-17 17:49:20 UTC ***

I am not sure

I mainly use Yahoo, Gmail and MSN

And I though typing near Available, Unavailable were for status updates.

This is what I meant:

When I am Unavailable and someone sents me an IM, he will get my pre-configured IM in his conversation window

Let's say someone named Melina messages you, her ID is Melina22, if you set your away message with example: %n I am gone, BBL. 
In her message box it will say Melina22, I am gone, BBL.

Not on her friends list window but her message box

Comment 6

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 513 at 2010-09-17 18:57:42 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #5)
> And I though typing near Available, Unavailable were for status updates.
Some networks (At least AIM) also use this as an auto-reply.

> When I am Unavailable and someone sents me an IM, he will get my pre-configured
> IM in his conversation window
> 
> Let's say someone named Melina messages you, her ID is Melina22, if you set
> your away message with example: %n I am gone, BBL. 
> In her message box it will say Melina22, I am gone, BBL.
Right, so some networks do this automatically, but you wish Instantbird to be able to do it for ones that do not.  I'll confirm this as new.  Sorry about the confusion.

Comment 7

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 513 by Chris Thomas <chrismt AT rocketmail.com> at 2010-09-18 06:33:46 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > And I though typing near Available, Unavailable were for status updates.
> Some networks (At least AIM) also use this as an auto-reply.
> 
> > When I am Unavailable and someone sents me an IM, he will get my pre-configured
> > IM in his conversation window
> > 
> > Let's say someone named Melina messages you, her ID is Melina22, if you set
> > your away message with example: %n I am gone, BBL. 
> > In her message box it will say Melina22, I am gone, BBL.
> Right, so some networks do this automatically, but you wish Instantbird to be
> able to do it for ones that do not.  I'll confirm this as new.  Sorry about the
> confusion.

Yes, this is what I meant

Comment 8

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

I don't think this is something we want to do. This should really be handled by protocols, not by the UI layer.