Out of office message

[Guest]

I am using Microsoft office Outlook 2003 Professional Edition and am trying to put an out of the office message on my computer. I do not have a setting for out of office assistant under Tools and am having difficulty with creating a rule for this. Can someone please help me? Thank you!

 

[Geoffry]

It depends on what type of an e-mail account that you
actually have. the Out of Office is a server side
message i.e. the messages are responded to whether you
actually have your computer on or not. Therefore, if you
have an actual exchange server account, the out of office
should be available.

If you only have POP accounts, the out of office message
doesn't actually make much sense, because you are working
off client side actions which can only work if your local
computer is on all the time. Therefore that option won't
be available

Geoffry

-----Original Message-----
I am using Microsoft office Outlook 2003 Professional

Edition and am trying to put an out of the office message
on my computer. I do not have a setting for out of office
assistant under Tools and am having difficulty with
creating a rule for this. Can someone please help me?
Thank you!

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

If you don't connect to an Exchange server, there is no automatic out of
office autoreply. You'd have to spoof it with rules, and note that this
means leaving Outlook open, and connected to the internet, for the duration
of your absence.

See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/index.htm for help.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You can use rules to create such a message but:

1. You will need to leave Outlook open,
2. Schedule a periodic send/receive session,
3. Be prepared to be on every spammers "good address" list,
4. Be prepared to have your account disabled by the ISP when you go into
the inevitable mail loop.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
Michele <[email protected]> asked:
| I am using Microsoft office Outlook 2003 Professional Edition and am
| trying to put an out of the office message on my computer. I do not
| have a setting for out of office assistant under Tools and am having
| difficulty with creating a rule for this. Can someone please help me?
| Thank you!

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am using Microsoft office Outlook 2003 Professional Edition and am
trying to put an out of the office message on my computer. I do not
have a setting for out of office assistant under Tools and am having
difficulty with creating a rule for this. Can someone please help me?
Thank you!

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