Re: Activacting Out of Office Assistant with a Pop 3 Server
From: Marathonrealty (Marathonrealty_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/09/05
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:47:02 -0800
Again, thank you for your assistance and detailed info! I am so excited and
I hope this will help us. What a process, whew! Have a great day! Thanks
again!
"Andreas Roeder" wrote:
> Marathonrealty wrote:
> > Thank you for your assistance. I attempted to create a rule, however, the
> > options did not seem to be correct. Apparently, I am not able to use the
> out
> > of office assistant because (according to our pc provider) we have a Pop 3
> > server and not an Exchange Server. Do you know exactly how to do this
> > without going through the server? Our IT guy came out and set up an
> > out-of-office reply on the server for one pc in the office; however, it is
> > required to toggle on or off everyday from the server. Is this the only
> > option? Please help!
> >
> HI,
> When you aren't using Exchange server, first create a template with your
> out-of-office message. Creating a template is easy, just open a new message
> and type your reply, then save the message using the File | Save as menu and
> save it as a template. If you're using Word as your email editor, you'll
> need to temporarily switch to the Outlook editor to create the template,
> using the Tools | Options | Mail Format menu, switching back to Word after
> you create the template.
>
> Next, use Rules Wizard to create a rule checking messages as they arrive.
> Leave the conditions screen blank if you want to send an autoreply for every
> message you receive or set up conditions to limit who receives a reply. In
> the next screen, choose "reply using a specific template" and browse to the
> template you created earlier. Click Next, setup desired exemptions, click
> Next again. After you name the rule, click Finish. You'll need to leave
> Outlook open and have it set up to automatically check for new mail for your
> autoreply to work.
>
> When you're using Rules wizard, you aren't limited to only OOF replies. For
> example, you can set up a rule to reply to specific subject lines and use it
> to automate replies to messages requesting information.
>
> Autoreplies are a powerful tool to help you manage you business, but they
> aren't without problems and are often despised by other internet users.
> Before enabling Out of Office replies, set your mailing list subscriptions
> to "nomail", or be prepared to endure flames from other list members. For
> security reasons, you should not put your itinerary and date of return in
> the message; the information might end in the wrong hands.
>
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>
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