How Do I sent a Vacation Notice

[Andrew]

Was wondering if I could get some instruction on how to
configure a vacation alert on my email. I would have
thought this would be a rather simple configuration but,
alas it appears to be much more difficult.

Can someone post the steps needed to help me out. Thanks in
advance

Andrew (going on vaction and would like to advise my clients!)

 

[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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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

If you don't connect to an Exchange server, there is no automatic out of
office autoreply. You'd have to spoof it with rules, and note that this
means leaving Outlook open, and connected to the internet, for the duration
of your absence.

See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/index.htm for help.

Also see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=196718 - it explains how to set
up a template so that autoreply fires only once per sender (as Out of Office
does) to avoid mail loops.