Happy Holidays I have Outlook Express 5 and wanted to know if there is a way to set up a message to be sent automatically to people who email you while you are out of office on vacation? -- Thx for your help! Suz
"Suddz62" wrote in message news:DF3D478A-22FD-4820-9BC0-41953CC6C6B1@microsoft.com... > Happy Holidays > > I have Outlook Express 5 and wanted to know if there is a way to set up a > message to be sent automatically to people who email you while you are out > of > office on vacation? Yes, you can do it with Message Rules, but it is not a very good idea since it will also reply to every piece of spam, confirming that yours is an active email address. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM http://www.fjsmjs.com
You can use Message Rules in Outlook Express (OE4: Inbox Assistant) to automatically reply to incoming messages. But there are some problems with this: - You must leave the computer running constantly while gone - It must be set to send and receive messages on a schedule - It must not encounter any errors or else it will stop and wait for user intervention - If you belong to any mailing lists be sure to unsubscribe or else make sure that the rules will exclude replies to the list. Otherwise you will cause an avalanche of messages to the list. If your mail sever provides a vacation response, this is better handled on the server. (Note that the caution about mailing lists also applies to server based vacation responses.) -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Suddz62" wrote in message news:DF3D478A-22FD-4820-9BC0-41953CC6C6B1@microsoft.com... > Happy Holidays > > I have Outlook Express 5 and wanted to know if there is a way to set > up a > message to be sent automatically to people who email you while you are > out of > office on vacation? > -- > Thx for your help! > Suz
