How do I set up automated out of office message?

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When I'm away from the office for an extended period of time, I want to set
up an automated response for all incoming messages, informing senders that I
am out of the office.
 
The Out of Office feature built into Outlook 97/98/2000/2002/2003 is only
functional when Outlook is used with an Exchange Server. If this is what
you have, you'll find it under 'Tools|Out of Office Assistant's. If an
Exchange Server is not in the picture, you can use Rules Wizard to
automatically reply to incoming messages, but there are some problems with
this:

- You must leave the computer running constantly while gone
- It must be set to send and receive messages on a schedule
- It must not encounter any errors or else it will stop and wait for user
intervention
- If you belong to any mailing lists be sure to unsubscribe or else make
sure that the rules will exclude replies to the list. Otherwise you will
cause an avalanche of messages to the list.

If your ISP provides a vacation response, this is better handled on his
server.

Hal
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