Out of Office

[emrich]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC
Email Client: pop

I have the 2008 Mac Entourage, but the Out of Office setting under Tools does not appear. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have the 2008 Mac Entourage, but the Out of Office setting under Tools
does not appear. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Do you have an Exchange account?? It's only for Excahnge...
If that's your case, right (command-) click your Exchange account in the
mailbox list and you will see the OOF option in the contextual menu,


Corentin

 

[emrich]

Corentin,

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure if my email is through an exchange server. I currently use register.com for email accounts with our domain name and my account is set-up as a POP. I didn't know where to locate the mailbox list you mentioned below.

Also, I have other computers (PCs) that have the ability to use the out of office feature.

???

Wendy

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Corentin,

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure if my email is through an exchange
server. I currently use register.com for email accounts with our domain
name and my account is set-up as a POP. I didn't know where to locate
the mailbox list you mentioned below.

Only Exchange accounts support this.

Also, I have other computers (PCs) that have the ability to use the out
of office feature.

Well, Out Of Office rules are best run on the server receiving your
e-mail. Exchange servers support this option and Outlook or Entourage
can set it up for you. A few more webmail interfaces for regular
(POP/IMAP) accounts can exist, but usually you have to go on the webmail
page to activate it.

The last option would be to set up rules manually to send an OOF reply
e-mail to all your e-mails (make sure you exclude mailing lists, or you
will very quickly become extremely impopular).
That requires to leave Entourage running at all times though (so that it
can filter e-mal and send the replies)


Corentin

 

[emrich]

Thank you very much for your help!! Take care.

Wendy