# Sending automatic replies to private messages for a specific user

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-automatic-replies-to-private-messages-for-a-specific-user/88414>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 24, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-automatic-replies-to-private-messages-for-a-specific-user/88414 "2018-05-24T22:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-automatic-replies-to-private-messages-for-a-specific-user/88414/2 "2018-05-24T22:29:11Z")

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Is it a user who’s account you control? If yes then you could try setting it to mailing list mode and set up a mail autoresponder that would respond to PMs by email.

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