How would I set up a custom out of office message (Outlook 2003)?

Something like:

Hi (email name):
I'm out of the office, I'll be back...
Me

An Outlook form, a template? I'm assuming it's a rule in the Out of Office
Assistant. Thanks.

"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> How would I set up a custom out of office message (Outlook 2003)?
>
> Something like:
>
> Hi (email name):
> I'm out of the office, I'll be back...
> Me
>
> An Outlook form, a template? I'm assuming it's a rule in the Out of
> Office
> Assistant. Thanks.

Well, if your mail server is Exchange, then you just go to Tools - Out of
Office Assistant and fill out the form. It isn't really a 'rule' there, I
mean, there are rules there, but there's an option to turn it on and a big
field to write what you want sent to people who mail you.
If your mail server isn't Exchange, then you set up a rule to autoreply to
messages and leave your client running -or- you ask the people who run your
mail server if there is a server side auto-reply mechanism for vacations.

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f.h.