Auto reply messaging

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Mary Scantland

Is there a way in Outlook 2000 you can set up a reply
message to automatically respond to a message someone
sends you when you are out of the office on vacation?
 
If you are in an Exchange environment (ask your
administrator if you do not
know) you can set the Out of the Office Assistant which
is located under
Tools.

If you are not in an Exchange environment you can create
a rule that replies
on all e-mails. The downside of this is that you'll have
to have your
Outlook open all the time for the rules to process. Make
sure you set some
exceptions (for instance based on the subject field so it
will not reply on
subject with e.g. reply, failed, undeliverable, etc...)
otherwhise you could
create endless mailloops between two mailservers and
those can be a real
threat to the mailservers!
 
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