Autoresponse setting

[Guest]

Good evening,

I am using XP Pro and Outlook 2003 SP1. I am trying to find out a way to
setup and turn off an autoresponse to incoming emails. My online assistance
recommends:
"In Mail, on the Tools menu, click Out of Office Assistant." But there is
not such optin in my Tools menu, or on my manager's tools menu. Online
assistance also says "The Out of Office Assistant command does not appear
unless you are using an Exchange Server e-mail account and you are in the
Mail view." We are using a server based Exchange and I tried looking in the
Tools menu for each group: Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Options, but no
Out of Office Assistant. I am trying to figure out why we cannot see this
option. Could this be because of some setting in Outlook, like having emails
being stored on our local drives instead of a server? I tend to think this
isnt' a problem because we still use the server to get our emails and to
connect to our network. I appreciate your suggestions.

Cordially,

 

[BillR [MVP]]

refer here for troubleshooting the Out of Office Assistant:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052422351033.aspx

you can also emulate it and bypass Exchange:

"How to emulate the Out of Office Assistant in Microsoft Outlook"

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311107