I found it.  I normally use IMAP so it wasn't there.  Thanks.

I am trying to make a general mail rule for auto-reply of out-of-office.  I have the general rule made telling Merc to "send a reply using a template".  I then created a .MER file with these lines.  Is this the proper way to tackle this and is this the correct template format?  Also, any time I go into edit the general rules Merc throws a "comment" line in the first line.  Why does it do that?

[quote] any time I go into edit the general rules Merc throws a "comment" line in the first line.  Why does it do that?[/quote]

Maybe you have a blank line at the start of the file? Don't know for sure.

As for your auto replies, there maybe a better option.

From the Help...

Setting up Automatic Replies

Mercury can manage auto replies for Internet mail, much the same way the UNIX "Vacation" program does. This means that when a message is delivered to an account with an active automatic reply, a message containing pre-determined "canned" text is automatically sent back to the person who sent the message.

There are essentially three different types of automatic reply supported by Mercury:

1:  Simple autoreplies  These are the easiest to set up, but the least flexible: the user simply creates a file in his or her new mail subdirectory called AREPLY.PM, containing the text to be returned to the sender. Mercury will look for this when delivering mail to the account, and will return its contents immediately the message is delivered locally. Pegasus Mail, Mercury's companion mail client, gives the user a convenient user interface for manipulating and enabling simple autoreplies.

2:  Programmed autoreplies  This type of automatic reply allows you to create a set of rules that Mercury should follow when choosing the text to return: you can base your rules on the day of the week, the month of the year, date ranges, or the time of day. Setting up programmed autoreplies requires a little more work - click here for details on creating the configuration file for programmed autoreplies.

3:  Autoresponders   An autoresponder differs from either of the other types of automatic reply in that once the automatic response has been sent, the message that triggered it is discarded - no further attempt is made to deliver the message. Autoresponders are implemented in Mercury as a specialized form of alias, and are extremely useful for creating things like FAQ servers and other addresses that simply return a textual message. Click here to go to the help section on Aliases
, where autoresponders are covered.

To avoid the possibility of mail storms (which can happen when two accounts start auto-replying to each other, or when an autoreply is sent to a list server), Mercury remembers every address from which a message has been successfully delivered for the account in the last 48 hours; if more than one message comes in from the same address in any 48 hour period, Mercury will generate only one auto-reply. The auto-reply memory is stored in a file called AREPLY.KFL in the user's new mail directory.

You can also specify a static kill file for autoreplies on a user by user basis. When generating an autoreply, Mercury checks to see if there is a file called AREPLY.KFS in the user's mail directory. If there is, it is checked for the address before the autoreply is transmitted. AREPLY.KFS differs from the AREPLY.KFL file Mercury generates automatically in that Mercury never changes or deletes it. It is provided to allow a user to suppress certain autoreplies permanently. Addresses should be entered into AREPLY.KFS one per line, in their simplest form.

Static and dynamic autoreply killfiles will work for both simple and programmed autoreplies.

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1:  Simple autoreplies  These are the easiest to set up, but the least flexible: the user simply creates a file in his or her new mail subdirectory called AREPLY.PM, containing the text to be returned to the sender. Mercury will look for this when delivering mail to the account, and will return its contents immediately the message is delivered locally. Pegasus Mail, Mercury's companion mail client, gives the user a convenient user interface for manipulating and enabling simple autoreplies.

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 Thanks for this info.  It worked perfectly.  Where is this user interface that pmail has for manipulating the autoreplies? 

If you don't use Pegasus you can set autoreplies from the web interface as well:

http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/community_add-ons_for_mercury/entry9527.aspx

/Rolf 

[quote user="Rolf Lindby"]

If you don't use Pegasus you can set autoreplies from the web interface as well:

http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/community_add-ons_for_mercury/entry9527.aspx

/Rolf 

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I do use PMail but I still don't know where it is. 

I do use PMail but I still don't know where it is.

You will see it under the Tools menu IF you are using Mercury/32 in the direct mode.  Mercury/32 is required to actually do the autoreply.