Friend Replied with Strange Subject line

Blong!hahaha

Hi guys,

I was just emailing a friend, as I do often, and they replied with a fairly normal, "Ok! See you then", but the subject line had changed. Instead of "Re: Saturday", it said, "please hold all non-urgent email Re: Saturday". Now, they use their gmail account in a semi-business sense, so I'm wondering - is there any feature or mechanism by which this could have accidentally found its way into the subject line? Or would they actually have to type it, and be fully aware of it? Seemed a bit weird to me!

RogerThis

He has an "Out of Office AutoReply" that is found in Settings and General tab.

You can add what you want to the subject line.

Blong!hahaha

I don't think so... Firstly, my friend read, understood and actually replied with a message, so it was not automatic. Secondly, the subject line had been added-to, not changed. Do you see what I mean?

misslt

Yeah but if he has an out of office on for whatever reason it will always reply like that - he can still respond to mails.

If he replied to the mail properly then I doubt its spam or whatever.

Edit: Yep just tested it and it adds the out of office to the subject you already had.

Blong!hahaha

I didn't know that! Ok I'll try to duplicate it now...

RogerThis

There a lot of extra features in gmail labs. I could possibly come from there.

If the person is using the web based gmail, the subject can't be altered without clicking the "Edit Subject" link.

It would have been easer to type it in the email.

Is the gmail account a normal @gmail.com account, or a google apps @whatever.com domain?

Blong!hahaha

Nope, I couldn't replicate it. Instead I got 2 messages, one blank with amended subject, and one with the reply, subject intact. I just thought it was unusual - why would someone choose a subject for an autoresponder that spoke only of 'urgent' emails? Surely if you're gone you're gone!

Blong!hahaha

RogerThis wrote: »

There a lot of extra features in gmail labs. I could possibly come from there.

If the person is using the web based gmail, the subject can't be altered without clicking the "Edit Subject" link.

It would have been easer to type it in the email.

Is the gmail account a normal @gmail.com account, or a google apps @whatever.com domain?

Ordinary gmail account. Yeah...I will have to figure this one out. I have my reasons for being curious about this.

misslt

Blong!hahaha wrote: »

Nope, I couldn't replicate it. Instead I got 2 messages, one blank with amended subject, and one with the reply, subject intact. I just thought it was unusual - why would someone choose a subject for an autoresponder that spoke only of 'urgent' emails? Surely if you're gone you're gone!

Thats really weird - I got the reply with the amended subject and the blank with just the out of office.

He might not be gone but just working on something important and is just letting people know he's busy?