Out of Office

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Jim Farquhar

I want to know how to set up an out of office message
which automatically replies to any email received in my
inbox whilst away.


I work from home and am not connected into a server
and have windows xp.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.
 
Janine said:
From your In-Box, go to Tools, then select Out of the
Office Assistant.
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The OP distinctly said he's not connected to an Exchange server, so your
advice is bogus.
 
I want to know how to set up an out of office message
which automatically replies to any email received in my
inbox whilst away.

I work from home and am not connected into a server
and have windows xp.
Click to expand...

This is normally a server setting, not one that you set on your
computer. So I'm not sure it's possible.

You could try this: Create a rule that will execute on every message,
and the action would be to "reply" using a template.

But a "smart" out-of-office message system will not send this message
to the same sender more than once. I don't see any way in Outlook
(2000) to keep this from happening.

Another thought is: get an outside mail provider. I have one for my
business email. The online help mentions "autoresponders" but doesn't
clearly describe how it works. But this is useful enought that I'm
certain that somebody offers it.

I'm not recommending these people, but this might give you an idea
what to search for:

http://www.swift-online.com/innerpage/www_mail_server.htm

I also found this free utility, no idea about how well it works:

http://www.sharewareriver.com/product.php?id=3691
 
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