How do I set up an email auto-responder?

[dUstrrbUnii]

I would like to set up an email auto-responder for my rental houses... I want it to be able to send out a questionaire/application to anyone who sends me an email asking about a house... Does anyone know how to get this kind of system set up?

thx

Nick

 

[JimWhitelaw]

There`s a few ways for you to do this. Probably at least one of your ISP or web hosting provider provide an autoresponder service. You can also use Gmail to set up autoresponders using these instructions:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/10/g...oresponder.html

You may also find Gmail`s "plus addressing" feature to be useful if you want to have unique addresses for each listing and manage them from a single Gmail account:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1865166,00.asp

 

[BenSanderson]

I`ll second the Gmail approach.

I`ve had good success by combining their "Canned Responses" feature (it`s currently a Labs item) with Gmail`s excellent filtering system. The result is that I can custom tailor a specific response for inquiries on a specific property or subject matter. For example, the last auto-response I created had all inquiries for my one "info@..." address receive a specific message giving loads of detail, but then prompting them to call if still interested in my property. Their message is then automatically marked as "Read" and flagged with a label to state that the response was sent out. Easy to track, and doesn`t require me to do anything.

There are lots of How To articles out there if you just Google "Gmail Canned Responses". This one is pretty decent: http://lifehacker.com/5165371/use-gmails-c...-autoresponders

 

[dUstrrbUnii]

QUOTE (BenSanderson @ Mar 21 2010, 07:40 AM) I`ll second the Gmail approach.

I`ve had good success by combining their "Canned Responses" feature (it`s currently a Labs item) with Gmail`s excellent filtering system. The result is that I can custom tailor a specific response for inquiries on a specific property or subject matter. For example, the last auto-response I created had all inquiries for my one "info@..." address receive a specific message giving loads of detail, but then prompting them to call if still interested in my property. Their message is then automatically marked as "Read" and flagged with a label to state that the response was sent out. Easy to track, and doesn`t require me to do anything.

There are lots of How To articles out there if you just Google "Gmail Canned Responses". This one is pretty decent: http://lifehacker.com/5165371/use-gmails-c...-autoresponders

Wow. Thank you very much guys, that was very helpful

Nickk

 

[DineenJJ]

Constant Contact has an autoresponder and you can use some html templates with it to make it look all snazzy



http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp

 

[David90]

I have tried using the gmail autoresponder with a canned response to my rental inquiries. My problem is when the email comes from a rental website like rentfaster.ca or rentboard.ca, my reply goes to the webmaster of the website, not the rental prospect.

Has anyone had this same problem? How have you gotten around it? I`d love to know, right now I have to log on to gmail and then click on "reply" then "insert canned message". It take lots of extra time.

Thanks,
David