There is no Out of Office or automatic vacation response feature in Windows
mail. You can use Message Rules to automatically reply to incoming
messages, but there are some problems with this:
- You must leave the computer running constantly while gone
- It must be set to send and receive messages on a schedule
- It must not encounter any errors or else it will stop and wait for user
intervention
- If you belong to any mailing lists be sure to unsubscribe or else make
sure that the rules will exclude replies to the list. Otherwise you will
cause an avalanche of messages to the list.
More info on using message rules:
http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm
Message Rules
If your ISP provides a vacation response, this is better handled on his
server.
Hal
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