Marianne said:
How do I set up "out of the office" reply to e-mail that
comes to my mailbox, while I am not able to use my PC for
a period of time? I have Outlook Express (windows xp)
This newsgroup is for support of Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002 & 2003 from the
Office family for Windows PCs. For Outlook Express (OE) support try posting
in one of these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.mail.mac for the Macintosh version of OE
If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).
Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://www.tomsterdam.com
The only way to do it would be with rules, but the problem with rules is
they're indiscriminate; IOW, it's all or nothing. This would mean that you'd
also reply to all the spam - verifying to the spammers that the address they
have for you is valid. So, when you came home from holiday, you'd have ten
times as much spam to contend with as you did when you left.
When I'm going away, I just send a round robin to everyone I need to inform
of my absence - job done and the spammers don't know anything about it.
I strongly advise that you forget about 'out of office' (which is an OL
connected to an Exchange server thing anyway) and merely advise people of
your impending absence.
