Office 2003 "Out of Office" template issue

therese_gule

Office 2003 "Out of Office" template issue

Outlook441
Hi all--I am using Outlook 2003 SP1 on it's own (i.e. not exchange server or

anything else), I know the "Out of Office" freature isn't available but a

work around is to create a template (.oft) using a text editor or similar as

I've done that as per the "How to emulate the Out of Office Assistant in

Microsoft Outlook" (Microsoft KB311107). Here's my problem: I have 6 email

addresses (all SMTP), only one email address can be set as default--that's

fine, but if I setup four email addresses as 'Out of Office' for example,

the auto-reply Out of Office email I created is sent to people via the

'default' email address not from the email address they emailed. Can

Outlook send Out of Office emails from each of the four email

account/addresses with rules setup as Away/Out of Office?

TIA

wrl-2

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Sue

Registered User

Mon Feb 21 06:59:29 CST 2005

Re:Office 2003 "Out of Office" template issue

No. Outlook will send out the responses using your default account only. You

might want to see if your mail account provider offers automatic responses

at the server level.

--

Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP

Author of

Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for

Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"wrl_2" <wrl@noreply.com>wrote in message

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Hi all--I am using Outlook 2003 SP1 on it's own (i.e. not exchange server

or anything else), I know the "Out of Office" freature isn't available but

a work around is to create a template (.oft) using a text editor or

similar as I've done that as per the "How to emulate the Out of Office

Assistant in Microsoft Outlook" (Microsoft KB311107). Here's my problem:

I have 6 email addresses (all SMTP), only one email address can be set as

default--that's fine, but if I setup four email addresses as 'Out of

Office' for example, the auto-reply Out of Office email I created is sent

to people via the 'default' email address not from the email address they

emailed. Can Outlook send Out of Office emails from each of the four

email account/addresses with rules setup as Away/Out of Office?

TIA

wrl-2