-----Original Message-----
Is it possible to use Microsoft Outlook to send automatic replies to incoming
email when I am out of the office for several days?
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From Outlook 2003 Help:
About managing your Inbox automatically while out of the
office
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This feature requires you to be using a Microsoft Exchange
Server e-mail account.
If you're not going to check e-mail while you're out of the
office, use the Out of Office Assistant to manage your
Inbox. You can automatically respond to incoming mail. You
can also create rules (rule: One or more automatic actions
taken on e-mail messages and meeting requests that meet
certain conditions, along with any exceptions to those
conditions. Rules are also referred to as filters.) that
automatically manage incoming messages by telling Microsoft
Outlook what action to take with them. For example, you can
create rules to automatically move or copy messages to
other folders, to delete messages, to send custom replies,
and so on.
If you create rules, it's important to understand how
Outlook applies them.
How rules are applied
Rules are applied in the order they appear, going from top
to bottom in the list of rules in the Out of Office
Assistant dialog box.
If you select more than one condition in the Edit Rule
dialog box, the rule will be applied only to messages that
meet all of the conditions. For example, if you specify
Judy Lew as the sender (condition) and "Marketing Meeting"
(condition) in the Subject box, the rule applies only to
messages that meet both conditions.
However, if you set multiple criteria for one condition,
the rule will be applied to messages that meet any one of
the multiple criteria for that condition. For example, if
you specify "Judy Lew;Frank Lee" in the From box, the rule
applies to messages from either Judy Lew or Frank Lee.
