Dan Cooperstock said:
Go to Tools -> Out of Office Assistant.
news:
[email protected]...
.... *if* you are using Exchange as your mail server. Otherwise, when
using POP3/SMTP, see:
How to emulate the Out of Office Assistant in Microsoft Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311107
And remember that you will also be responding to spam (and your replies
will probably assault innocents because of spammers impersonating
someone else or because of trojanized PCs running mailer daemons, or
wasting time sending replies to bogus e-mail addresses used by
spammers).
If Exchange is used then Out of Office (OO) is probably configured (and
is by default) to NOT send auto-responses to outside senders. That is,
your OO replies go only to senders within your Exchange organization
(i.e., within your company) to eliminate responding to spam. It is also
to eliminate marring the company image by making it appear to its
customers that the company is too stupid to allocate resources to cover
when someone takes a vacation. If you instead use an OO rule to a
POP3/SMTP server to bypass Exchange, you will probably be violating your
company's policy regarding auto-responding to outside senders.
If you are doing this at home then realize that you have to leave your
computer always powered on and booted into Windows (which means you'll
need a big UPS to help ensure up-time) and Outlook has to be left
running. You'll find that using Windows and Outlook as a server does
not make for a reliable mail server. Check if your ISP provides an
option to enable an auto-responder. Typically you use their webmail
interface to your mailbox to configure its options or a web page to
configure your account where you might then find an option to define an
auto-responder. You'll have to check with your ISP if their spam
filtering, if enabled, removes that crap before the message gets passed
to the auto-responder (many don't so you auto-reply to spam).
