Out of office with exchange and pop3

[Guest]

We have exchange 5.5 and outlook 2000
Our internal mail is run through exchange, however we use pop3 accounts for
our external mail which is stored in our exchange mailbox.
We would like to use the out of office feature, however I gather that this
only works when exchange is used for all mail. I found several articles on
emulating the out of office assistant, but they indicate that you can only
set this up if your outlook is configured in "internet email" mode without
exchange... I tried it anyways and it does not work.
Does anyone know if there is a way to do this when both exchange and
internet mail are in the outlook profile??

Many thanks

Lee

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Can't be done because the Exchange transport always wins.