The Out of Office Assistant comand is missing from the tools menu.

[Guest]

I am using outlook 2000. I cannot find the out of office assistant comand on
the tools menu. I could not find help on the microsoft website for 2000, but
did find troubleshooting for 2003. I followed the steps
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052422351033.aspx), but still
do not have an out of office assistant. Any suggestions?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

If you are in an Exchange environment (ask your administrator if you do
notknow) you can set the Out of the Office Assistant which is located under
Tools.

If you are not in an Exchange environment you can create a rule that replies
on all e-mails. The downside of this is that you'll have to have your
Outlook open all the time for the rules to process. Make sure you set some
exceptions (for instance based on the subject field so it will not reply on
subject with e.g. reply, failed, undeliverable, etc...) otherwhise you could
create endless mailloops between two mailservers and those can be a real
threat to the mailservers!

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

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