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Vstein

How do I turn off an out of office auto reply? It is not available on my
tools bar. It is missing. I have tried just about everything.
 
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_Vanguard_

Vstein said:
How do I turn off an out of office auto reply? It is not available on
my
tools bar. It is missing. I have tried just about everything.
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So, are you actually use MS Exchange as your mail server? Use Outlook's
own help to search on "out of office" and notice what it says about
requirements. Exchange is required since it is the *server* that is
issuing the auto-reply, not you via Outlook.

You can try to *emulate* the Out Of Office feature using a rule but
you'll have to leave your computer powered up, Windows loaded, Outlook
loaded, don't go on Standby or Hibernate modes (since that will probably
disconnect your NIC), and you are wishfully hoping that Outlook which is
an e-mail *client* is reliable and robust enough to behave as a server
(which it is not). See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311107.
 
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Vstein

Maybe I did create it with a rule. I am using a pop-server. In this case
then all of my rules are missing. I have no rules in my list to deactivate.
 
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_Vanguard_

_Vanguard_ said:
So, are you actually use MS Exchange as your mail server? Use
Outlook's own help to search on "out of office" and notice what it
says about requirements. Exchange is required since it is the
*server* that is issuing the auto-reply, not you via Outlook.

You can try to *emulate* the Out Of Office feature using a rule but
you'll have to leave your computer powered up, Windows loaded, Outlook
loaded, don't go on Standby or Hibernate modes (since that will
probably disconnect your NIC), and you are wishfully hoping that
Outlook which is an e-mail *client* is reliable and robust enough to
behave as a server (which it is not). See
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311107.

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If you are not connecting to MS Exchange and instead using a POP3 mail
server then the menu for Out of Office won't appear. So you don't have
it setup to do the auto-reply. Since you want to turn it off and since
it isn't there, what is the real problem? Are your recipients getting
auto-replies as though you were sending it to them? Have they actually
checked the headers, especially the Received headers, to determine it
those e-mails are really from you are are spoofed from someone else?

You want to turn off Out of Office auto-replies. You aren't using
Exchange so that's why the menu selection for it isn't there. Since you
aren't using Exchange and since you have no rules to emulate it, there
is something missing in your post. Why are you trying to turn off
something you don't have?

Are you sure your POP3 email account doesn't itself provide an
auto-responder? Use its webmail interface to check the options for your
account to see if you setup an auto-responder on the server. Of course,
I am presuming that SOMETHING is getting sent out that you think is an
auto-reply and want to stop it.
 
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