Out of office autoreply

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A simple question. Does Outlook 2000 support out of office
autoreply. And if so how do I enable it?
Ann
 
This feature is only available if you use the Exchange Server.

Otherwise, you need to use the "Rules Wizard".

However, Sue Mosher has written up how to emulate
this feature if you do not connect to the Microsoft Exchange
Server:
http://www.slipstick.com/rules/autoreply.htm

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Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

A simple question. Does Outlook 2000 support out of office
autoreply. And if so how do I enable it?
Ann
 
Ann said:
A simple question. Does Outlook 2000 support out of office
autoreply. And if so how do I enable it?
Ann
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Besides searching first in newsgroups for a similar post regarding your
topic, you might also try searching Microsoft's own online support
knowledgebase. There are LOTS of articles there and some may even cover
your topic.

- Go to http://support.microsoft.com/.
- Advanced search.
- Search on "out of office assistant" for Outlook 2002.
- Voila, "OL2002: How to Emulate the Out of Office Assistant", #311107.

Of course, it is still an unreliable solution. You must:

- Leave your computer powered on all the time you are away.
- Disable power options so your computer does NOT go into Standby mode
(which will disable the network interface).
- Leave Windows logged in under your username.
- Leave Outlook running.
- Hope Outlook doesn't start to bitch about login problems (by
displaying an often bogus "enter username/password" dialog caused by a
login problem and not because of corrupted security settings on registry
keys).
- Have an always-on LAN connection, or hope your dial-up is reliable
enough to work enough times to adequately handle your e-mails.
- Have your computer attached to a UPS. If your system goes down, and
even if it comes back up, logs in automatically, and automatically loads
Outlook, you will lose its history of prior senders to which it auto
replied. Outlook remembers who it replied to so that it only replies
once to that sender but this is remembered only within that session of
Outlook. If Outlook exits then the history is lost.

Check if your ISP doesn't already provide an option to your e-mail
account. Maybe they already provide an auto-responder feature. A
server-side solution is far better than a hacked up client-side
solution.
 
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