Out of office - once per day, outside senders only

[Dawn]

I beleive this may be a fools' errand, but here goes... does anyone know a
way to set up a rule that will respond as an out of office autoresponse once
per day? I would like it to only go to senders from outside my office and
only to senders inside my office who have sent directly to me without any
other cc's. I can set up a rule, but it appears to be limited to responding
once per "session" and to would end up just responding one time, which ends
up being the same behavior as the OOF assistant - just one response per
person.

Yes, I hear the howls of derision rising up "Are your senders all brain
dead? Isn't one OOF response plenty?" To those who care, here is my
justification, for whatever it matters. This is for that rare thing of
beauty, the Extended Vacation. And when on EV, it does not seem reasonable
to me to expect a client (who themselves has a million things to do and
hundreds of people they are sending out emails to on a weekly basis) after
receiving an OOF on day 2 of my vacation, that they should still remember
*my* schedule by day 6 of my vacation (and oh, by the way, the schedules of
anyone else in their contact list who has gone off for a summer vacation at
the same time). I fear the email sent on day 6, asking for a reply by the
end of business, to which they hear nothing but cricket song. Yes,
eventually, after two frantic follow up emails and finally a phone call to
the office, they will realize they were told way-back-when that I am
cuirrently out of the office, and they may "understand", but they will still
be ticked off, and will have endured an unnecessary runaround.

If anyone has any ideas on handling this, I greatly appreciate it!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The only way I know of to handle this would be to restart outlook - it needs
to run for a rule to work anyway. You can do this using scripts in task
scheduler.

If using OOF, you could log into OWA and disable/enable it every couple of
days so clients can be reminded.

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[nablaodel]

I can set up a rule, but it appears to be limited to responding once per "session" and

to would end up just responding one time, which ends up being the same behavior as
the OOF assistant - just one response per person.

Interesting... I find that setting up a rule, it responds every time.

But, I want to set up my vacation message via a rule because then I
can tell it to only respond when I'm on the To or CC line (and avoid
sending it back to most mailing lists). I can't figure out how to do
that without writing some script that runs on the client side.

If anyone knows of a way, I'd very much like to hear about it.
Thanks!