I am trying to set up an automatic reply for email messages. I have
set up a rule with the rules wizard, however it sends the reply as an
attachment. Is there a way to have the message sent with text in the
body (not as an attachment)? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Jake
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"Jake" said in news:(E-Mail Removed):
> I am trying to set up an automatic reply for email messages. I have
> set up a rule with the rules wizard, however it sends the reply as an
> attachment. Is there a way to have the message sent with text in the
> body (not as an attachment)? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
> Jake
> (E-Mail Removed)

Since each version of Outlook has a different feature set and hence the
reason for the different versions, you really need to specify for which
version of Outlook you are asking the question.

OL2002: How to Emulate the Out of Office Assistant
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311107

So when you follow the instructions to create a rule to automatically reply
(apparently you want to reply to all e-mails, including spam), your "reply"
gets inserted as an attachment instead of in the body of the message? Or do
you mean your reply gets sent with *their* message as an attachment?

Since you are using your Outlook program as a simplistic pseudo mail server,
you have to leave it running all the time. If you exit and restart Outlook,
it will lose the list of users to whom it previously responded with the
automated reply, so the same senders will get another auto reply instead of
just one.


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thanks for the reply. i am using outlook 6.0. i would like to have the
'reply' sent as a normal email msg instead of an attachment. whether
it includes the original(sender's) msg or not does not matter. but
rather than send an attachment, i would like it to look as if it was
an individually typed reply
jake
"*Vanguard*" <no-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<ecjp#(E-Mail Removed)>...
> "Jake" said in news:(E-Mail Removed):
> > I am trying to set up an automatic reply for email messages. I have
> > set up a rule with the rules wizard, however it sends the reply as an
> > attachment. Is there a way to have the message sent with text in the
> > body (not as an attachment)? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
> > Jake
> > (E-Mail Removed)
>
> Since each version of Outlook has a different feature set and hence the
> reason for the different versions, you really need to specify for which
> version of Outlook you are asking the question.
>
> OL2002: How to Emulate the Out of Office Assistant
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311107
>
> So when you follow the instructions to create a rule to automatically reply
> (apparently you want to reply to all e-mails, including spam), your "reply"
> gets inserted as an attachment instead of in the body of the message? Or do
> you mean your reply gets sent with *their* message as an attachment?
>
> Since you are using your Outlook program as a simplistic pseudo mail server,
> you have to leave it running all the time. If you exit and restart Outlook,
> it will lose the list of users to whom it previously responded with the
> automated reply, so the same senders will get another auto reply instead of
> just one.

"Jake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> thanks for the reply. i am using outlook 6.0.

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003 from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/new...ternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!