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Suddz62 · Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

Happy Holidays

I have Outlook Express 5 and wanted to know if there is a way to set up a
message to be sent automatically to people who email you while you are out of
office on vacation?
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Thx for your help!
Suz

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 347

"Suddz62" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> Happy Holidays
>
> I have Outlook Express 5 and wanted to know if there is a way to set up a
> message to be sent automatically to people who email you while you are out
> of
> office on vacation?

Yes, you can do it with Message Rules, but it is not a very good idea since
it will also reply to every piece of spam, confirming that yours is an
active email address.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com

Michael Santovec · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 182

You can use Message Rules in Outlook Express (OE4: Inbox Assistant) 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.

If your mail sever provides a vacation response, this is better handled
on the server. (Note that the caution about mailing lists also applies
to server based vacation responses.)

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"Suddz62" wrote in message @microsoft.com...
> Happy Holidays
>
> I have Outlook Express 5 and wanted to know if there is a way to set
> up a
> message to be sent automatically to people who email you while you are
> out of
> office on vacation?
> --
> Thx for your help!
> Suz

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