how to create an auto reply rule/macro that wont create a new mess

[squalltheonly]

hello everyone.

i'm trying to figure out how to create an auto reply rule that wont create a
new message when activating. the normal auto reply rule will reply to the
sender, but it will create a new message that wont contain the body of the
original message. this is not really helpful.

i need to find a way to reply to the message, but keeping the original body
of the message & everything in it. pretty much i want outlook to "click"
reply, "type" something, & then "click" send, which is what i would do. that
way the original body is kept.

im using outlook 07 w/ exchange server from work.

thank you for your help...

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

i'm trying to figure out how to create an auto reply rule that wont create
a
new message when activating. the normal auto reply rule will reply to the
sender, but it will create a new message that wont contain the body of the
original message. this is not really helpful.

i need to find a way to reply to the message, but keeping the original
body
of the message & everything in it. pretty much i want outlook to "click"
reply, "type" something, & then "click" send, which is what i would do.
that
way the original body is kept.

I don't know of any way to do this other than writing your own code. Why do
you need to send back the message the sender already has, since s/he sent
it?

 

[squalltheonly]

I figure that i had to use a macro & create a code, but i don't really
understand coding all that much, not in macros anyways. the reason i need to
reply w/ the body of the original message is because the sender wants
replies, but they dont want them to be automated, its noticable that it was
automated when there is no body & its a brand new message. its an internal
job thing

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

the sender wants replies, but they dont want them to be automated,

So you're going to electronically lie to them and try to make look like the
automatic replies aren't really automatic?

 

[squalltheonly]

haha, yeah i know it sounds bad. but thats pretty much what i am trying to
do. they know how the regular auto-reply looks like & they dont want those
type of e-mails, they want us to manually reply to those e-mails. the thing
is that you have to be fast when responding, or else someone else could beat
you to it.