Out of Office Auto Reply

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All resources say you set up an auto reply using the Out
of Office Assistant in the Tools menu. There is no Out
of Office Assistant in my Tools menu. What's up with
that? How can I send an out of office auto reply?
 
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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Roady said:
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.
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It will also reply to all the spam you get, thus getting more spam that is
replied to etc etc ad infinitum until your mailbox is full!
 
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