Outlook express auto-reply fiasco!

[TD]

HI- not sure if anyone can help me- I've got a maddening
situation. I'm trying to set an auto-reply for someoen
who's going on a trip, and rather than replying to all
new incoming messages, it's sending auto responses to
EVERYONE in the inbox(there are over a thousand messages)!
luckily the bulk of the messages were caught and deleted
while still in the outgoing mailbox and did not get sent,
but why is this happening?

These are the rules i'm following:

In the Tools menu choose Message Rules.
In the Message Rules dialog box, choose Mail.
In Box #1 select the last choice For All Messages.
In Box #2 select the choice Reply with Message.
In Box #3 click the underlined message.
This will open an Open menu. You will then select the
document containing your saved auto reply message from
the first set of instructions.
Select the file and click Open.
In Box #4, name your rule as Auto Reply, then click OK.
Another screen will open to verify your selected rule.
Choose Apply Now.
A second screen opens with info on where to apply the
rule. Be sure that the Inbox is listed as the folder,
then click Apply Now, then click on Close. This will
return you to the previous screen where you will finally
click OK.


there is no prompt to only apply it to new or incoming
messages, nothing at all. waht am i doing wrong?

please help!

thanks

TD

 

[Rifleman]

HI- not sure if anyone can help me- I've got a maddening
situation. I'm trying to set an auto-reply for someoen
who's going on a trip,

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook
97/98/2000/2002/2003 from the Office suite of products. Outlook
Express is actually a separate program despite the similar name.

For help with your OE questions, try an OE newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (for OE 6), or
an OE help website such as http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com. If you're
accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services "Community Newsgroups" web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number. Good luck!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook Express is behaving as expected.

This newsgroup is for support of Outlook 97-2003 from the Office
family for Windows PCs. For Outlook Express (OE) support try posting in one
of
these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...blic.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
for OE 5.5x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ublic.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
for OE 6.x
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...;newsgroupsmicrosoft.public.internet.mail.mac
for the Macintosh version of OE
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...ess.mac&SLCID=US&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups). The links under the newsgroup
references are for use with MS's web newsreader (not exactly the best way to
post but it works for some people)

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the SWEN virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, TD asked:

| HI- not sure if anyone can help me- I've got a maddening
| situation. I'm trying to set an auto-reply for someoen
| who's going on a trip, and rather than replying to all
| new incoming messages, it's sending auto responses to
| EVERYONE in the inbox(there are over a thousand messages)!
| luckily the bulk of the messages were caught and deleted
| while still in the outgoing mailbox and did not get sent,
| but why is this happening?
|
| These are the rules i'm following:
|
| In the Tools menu choose Message Rules.
| In the Message Rules dialog box, choose Mail.
| In Box #1 select the last choice For All Messages.
| In Box #2 select the choice Reply with Message.
| In Box #3 click the underlined message.
| This will open an Open menu. You will then select the
| document containing your saved auto reply message from
| the first set of instructions.
| Select the file and click Open.
| In Box #4, name your rule as Auto Reply, then click OK.
| Another screen will open to verify your selected rule.
| Choose Apply Now.
| A second screen opens with info on where to apply the
| rule. Be sure that the Inbox is listed as the folder,
| then click Apply Now, then click on Close. This will
| return you to the previous screen where you will finally
| click OK.
|
|
| there is no prompt to only apply it to new or incoming
| messages, nothing at all. waht am i doing wrong?
|
| please help!
|
| thanks
|
| TD

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Don't choose Apply Now.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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[Guest]

thanks everyone!

-----Original Message-----
Don't choose Apply Now.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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HI- not sure if anyone can help me- I've got a maddening
situation. I'm trying to set an auto-reply for someoen
who's going on a trip, and rather than replying to all
new incoming messages, it's sending auto responses to
EVERYONE in the inbox(there are over a thousand messages)!
luckily the bulk of the messages were caught and deleted
while still in the outgoing mailbox and did not get sent,
but why is this happening?

These are the rules i'm following:

In the Tools menu choose Message Rules.
In the Message Rules dialog box, choose Mail.
In Box #1 select the last choice For All Messages.
In Box #2 select the choice Reply with Message.
In Box #3 click the underlined message.
This will open an Open menu. You will then select the
document containing your saved auto reply message from
the first set of instructions.
Select the file and click Open.
In Box #4, name your rule as Auto Reply, then click OK.
Another screen will open to verify your selected rule.
Choose Apply Now.
A second screen opens with info on where to apply the
rule. Be sure that the Inbox is listed as the folder,
then click Apply Now, then click on Close. This will
return you to the previous screen where you will finally
click OK.


there is no prompt to only apply it to new or incoming
messages, nothing at all. waht am i doing wrong?

please help!

thanks

TD

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