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by fisheye121

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Hi,
My boss is on vacation this week. She just sent me an email asking me to set up an automated reply email that gets sent to anyone who sends her an email to inform them that she is on vacation and will be returning on Monday. I know this is possible because I've recieved that kind of thing from people who were on vacation. She is using Outlook 2000. If anyone knows how to do this, please help. Thank you in advance.

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by nikki96

It's called "Out Of Office Auto-Reply", and she needs to set it up herself.
It'a under Tools->Out Of Office Assistant.
Fill in the box with the message and click the option next to "I am currently out of the Office."

Nikki

by nikki96

If you don't have Exchange, it depends on the server. What mail server are you using? Some sort of POP server, or SMTP? Do you know what you have as opposed to Exchange?

by pierres

Hi,

In outlook 200 under tools. Theres a Out of Office assistant. Set it to being out of the Office and Then type Your Msg.

Pierre

by fisheye121

Hi folks,
Thanks for all your suggestions. The only problem is that "Out of Office Assistant" isn't listed under tools in Outlook 2000. I did a help search for it in Outlook and it says: "this feature requires Microsoft Exchange". We don't have Exchange. Does anyone know of a way to do this without Exchange? Thanks again for the help.

by designpolice

Your POP3 provider should have auto-reply features. We use earthlink and can put up auto-replys in 3 quick steps - Usually providers have access to this feature through the hosting control panel. Go to their site- admin tools to find it or give them a call. if you are using a major provider i bet its there.

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