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Jennifer

Hi! Does anyone know how to set up an automatic out of
office reply on Outlook in XP? I'm sure I was able to do
this in a previous version of outlook however it's about
4 years since I used Outlook regularly and have totally
forgotten how to do it?
 
If you are in an Exchange environment (ask your administrator if you do
notknow) 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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I was told that feature is only available to peolple on a
sever in their office. I'm not sure whether that is
correct.
 
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