Sending out of office replies only to mail addressed to me

[Adlin]

Hi. I've set up the out of office reply on Outlook. However, I have several
list serves that I subscribe to and would prefer not to spam a list with my
out of office message. Is there a way to only send the out of office reply
to e-mail addressed to me?

Thanks.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello]

Not with Outlook, or at least not with the Out of Office Reply system used
with Microsoft Exchange. You might check the add-ins sections at
http://www.slipstick.com and see if a 3rd party program might do what you
want.

You might be able to set up a client-side rule in Outlook to auto-reply only
if you are the only person in the To: line, but you'd have to leave Outlook
running all the time, and there is no way to specify that the recipient will
only receive your message once, which could result in some nasty e-mail
server loops. And, of course, not all mailing lists put your own e-mail
address in their To: line.

 

[Adlin]

Thanks much. I couldn't see where it did, but thought I might be missing. I
wasn't overly fond of GroupWise, but did like that feature.