Unfortunately, the rule method will reply to legitimate mail and spammers
alike. Unless you don't mind confirming your address to the immediate
world, the ISP method is the better choice.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.
After furious head scratching, jrothwell8 asked:
| You can set up an Outlook rule to do the same thing as the ISP
| Autoreply. Under Tools>Rules and Alerts, select New Rule. Start from
| a blank template and tell Outlook to check the messages when they
| arrive. Click next. Select 'received in a specific date span'. Click
| on the hyperlink and type in the date span of the holiday. Then on
| the next step, select 'reply with a specific template'. Click the
| hyperlink and choose an Outlook template. You can make your own if
| necessary. Then select Next, and Next again. Check Turn on this rule,
| and click Finish. Then OK out of the Rules box.
| One slight problem though. You need to make sure that the machine is
| on full power running Outlook through the whole holiday. Anyway, hope
| this helps.
|
| "seth" wrote:
|
|| i think you have 2 separate questions here
|| first, to send a mail to many addresses without showing the names,
|| just put the names in the bcc field in outlook
|| second, to have an auto reply when you are out of the office with a
|| custom message (i'm on vacation, or whatever) use the out of office
|| assistant if you are using exchange
|| if you are not using exchange, your ISP usually has a feature with
|| your account that you can manage your email settings from, but you'd
|| have to verify with them
||
|| ||| How do i send an email blast w/out disclosing all the names??
||| When on vacation adn receive an email, how do i set uo so outlook
||| automatically emails sender back and advise "on vacation"
|||
||| ALso i need to figure out how we can mail merge for example clients
||| receive
||| the same letter but personalized??