remotely set out of office

[Twig]

Like many people, I have different email accounts at work and at home. Like
most people, I have no access to my work email from home. Like most people, i
am sometimes out of the office unexpectedly or forget to set an out-of-office
before I go on holiday.
Is there a facility that allows me to, for example, send in an email to my
work account which will trigger the setting of an out of office?
I am thinking of something like having a rule at work which would detect an
email from my home account with "set out of office" (or something) in the
subject and then it would set my out of office ON with a message in line with
whatever I had sent in as the body of the email.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Have you ever tried accessing your mailbox with Outlook Web Accesss? If so, you should be able to turn on the out-of-office message there.

There is no built-in way to set OOA other than through the dialogs in Outlook and OWA.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers