Office 2003 "Out of Office" template issue

[wrl_2]

Hi all--I am using Outlook 2003 SP1 on it's own (i.e. not exchange server or
anything else), I know the "Out of Office" freature isn't available but a
work around is to create a template (.oft) using a text editor or similar as
I've done that as per the "How to emulate the Out of Office Assistant in
Microsoft Outlook" (Microsoft KB311107). Here's my problem: I have 6 email
addresses (all SMTP), only one email address can be set as default--that's
fine, but if I setup four email addresses as 'Out of Office' for example,
the auto-reply Out of Office email I created is sent to people via the
'default' email address not from the email address they emailed. Can
Outlook send Out of Office emails from each of the four email
account/addresses with rules setup as Away/Out of Office?

TIA

wrl-2

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No. Outlook will send out the responses using your default account only. You
might want to see if your mail account provider offers automatic responses
at the server level.