How to add text to Reply message in a rule?

[Geoff]

I'm setting up a Rule to be used to Reply to every sender with my new email
address. In the Rules Wizard, I selected "reply using a specific template"
and the system pointed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\1033\MAIL.OFT. But that is an empty template; how do I
configure it to include the message text? I tried copying it and adding the
Subject and text but it did not save the changes.

Thx,

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Create a message template of your own;
Set Outlook as your email editor (since you are using Outlook 2003), create
a message with only a subject and a body and save it as an oft-file via;
File-> Save As...

You can save this file in any convenient location such as \My
Documents\Outlook.