Hi,
I have a user who is out of town and I setup their auto reponse for email
and it only works for a couple of times and then it no longer auto reponses.
The user is using Windows 2000Pro with Office 2003. I've sent them about 4
emails and received a reponse that they where out of the office, soon after
that it quit responding. I went in and recreated the auto response, it
worked for awhile then quit. Is there something else I can look at?
Thanks for your time, Craig

Normally Out of Office (which works only with Exchange server) responds once
to each person. That's the way it's intended to behave since responding to
every person every time would be a nuisance.

--
Kathleen Orland
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
http://www.howto-outlook.com/



"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a user who is out of town and I setup their auto reponse for email
> and it only works for a couple of times and then it no longer auto reponses.
> The user is using Windows 2000Pro with Office 2003. I've sent them about 4
> emails and received a reponse that they where out of the office, soon after
> that it quit responding. I went in and recreated the auto response, it
> worked for awhile then quit. Is there something else I can look at?
> Thanks for your time, Craig
>
>
>

Oooo thanks, that makes sense. I have to laugh about that one!
"K. Orland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:765B5EA7-1C83-4E0D-96CE-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Normally Out of Office (which works only with Exchange server) responds
> once
> to each person. That's the way it's intended to behave since responding to
> every person every time would be a nuisance.
>
> --
> Kathleen Orland
> Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
>
>
>
> "(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have a user who is out of town and I setup their auto reponse for email
>> and it only works for a couple of times and then it no longer auto
>> reponses.
>> The user is using Windows 2000Pro with Office 2003. I've sent them about
>> 4
>> emails and received a reponse that they where out of the office, soon
>> after
>> that it quit responding. I went in and recreated the auto response, it
>> worked for awhile then quit. Is there something else I can look at?
>> Thanks for your time, Craig
>>
>>
>>

If you really do want Outlook to respond to every single email, you would
have to create a rule and leave Outlook running for it to work.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/oooa.htm
--
Kathleen Orland
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
http://www.howto-outlook.com/



"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> Oooo thanks, that makes sense. I have to laugh about that one!
> "K. Orland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:765B5EA7-1C83-4E0D-96CE-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Normally Out of Office (which works only with Exchange server) responds
> > once
> > to each person. That's the way it's intended to behave since responding to
> > every person every time would be a nuisance.
> >
> > --
> > Kathleen Orland
> > Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> > http://www.howto-outlook.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > "(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I have a user who is out of town and I setup their auto reponse for email
> >> and it only works for a couple of times and then it no longer auto
> >> reponses.
> >> The user is using Windows 2000Pro with Office 2003. I've sent them about
> >> 4
> >> emails and received a reponse that they where out of the office, soon
> >> after
> >> that it quit responding. I went in and recreated the auto response, it
> >> worked for awhile then quit. Is there something else I can look at?
> >> Thanks for your time, Craig
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

Hi,

I agree with Kathleen's explanation.

In the "Out of Office Assistant", if you do not set up a role, then by
default the message will be sent once to each e-mail sender. To create a
role, please use the steps below:

* How to Create a Rule
=================
1. On the Tools menu, click Out of Office Assistant.
2. In the Out of Office Assistant dialog box, click Add Rule.
3. In the When a message arrives that meets the following conditions box,
specify the conditions that you want the message to meet.
4. Click to select the Do not process subsequent rules check box to
specify that this rule must be the last one applied.
5. To specify more conditions, click Advanced, select the options that
you want, and then click OK.
6. In the Perform these actions box, select the options that you want.

More information can be obtained at the following KB article:

290846 How to use the Out of Office Assistant in Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;290846

Hope this helps!


Regards,

Leon Hao

Microsoft Online Partner Support
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