SP 2 broke Outlook 2007 on this. There's a klunky workaround.
1. Do everything MS tells you to do, including making sure it's in text.
2. Move everything from you inbox to another temporary folder.
3. Send yourself a message. You'll get the pop-up saying it sould not reply.
4. Close outlook.
5. Reopen outlook. You should still have the message you sent yourself there.
6. Open rules again, recheck the box for your auto reply rule. Choose "run rule now" and on the dialog box, check your autoreply rule.
7. It will work! And from now on (once it's run once) it will work, BUT ONLY AS LONG AS OUTLOOK STAYS ON. If you close outlook (or get an update that reboots your computer) the rule won't work any more. And you'll have to go through steps 2-6 again.
8. The reason I had you transfer everything from your inbox in step 2 is because when you run rule now, it will send your autoreply to every message in the inbox. After you've run the rule manually, you can move the messages back from their temporary home into the Inbox.
ppsITguy wrote:
Outlook 2007 Rules In Error - Cannot Reply to Message
12-Nov-09
I have a computer trying to set up an out of office reply. We have created
rule, but it will not seem to work. I applied the rule but as soon as the firs
message comes in, the rule shuts off and I get a "Rules in Error" that say
"Cannot Reply to Message". This happened earlier this year on anothe
computer. I fixed the problem by uninstalling the update KB969907. I trie
to do the same on this computer, but the update is not installed on it. Wha
can i do to fix this problem
-
Matt
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Outlook 2007 Rules In Error - Cannot Reply to Message
I have a computer trying to set up an out of office reply. We have created
rule, but it will not seem to work. I applied the rule but as soon as the firs
message comes in, the rule shuts off and I get a "Rules in Error" that say
"Cannot Reply to Message". This happened earlier this year on anothe
computer. I fixed the problem by uninstalling the update KB969907. I trie
to do the same on this computer, but the update is not installed on it. Wha
can i do to fix this problem
-
Matt
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