Check with your ISP. They may offer this option for you.
Be advised that if you were to setup an auto-reply routine on your home
computer, it would have to be running 24/7 while you were gone and there's a
good likelihood that it would be validating your address to any spammers that
got through to your system in your absence.
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"MS Office PROPLUS.msi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I have MSoffice 2003 with a normal e-mail account. I want to set auto reply
> mail system when I am absent, but the system says that I have to be connected
> to teh exchange system. How do I do that keeping my actual mail accounts?
> Anyone who could help?
>