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Outlook 2003 Out of Office Assistant

Jul 18, 2005 5:51AM PDT

Using Outlook 2003 in Windows 2000, in an office environment with MS Exchange Server.

I'm wondering whether it's possible to create a rule to tell the Out of Office Assistant NOT to auto-reply to specific messages (from a particular sender or sent to a specified e-mail address) but to auto-reply to other messages not meeting these criteria.

Thanks!

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I got this from Outlook help
Jul 18, 2005 9:26AM PDT

"This feature requires Microsoft Exchange.

On the Tools menu, click Out of Office Assistant.
Click Add Rule.
Under When a message arrives that meets the following conditions, specify the conditions of the rule that the message must meet for the action to occur.
To specify more conditions, click Advanced, select the options you want, and then click OK.
To specify that this rule must be the last one applied, select the Do not process subsequent rules check box.
For Help on an option, click Help.

Under Perform these actions, select the options you want. You can select more than one option.
Note If you specify that a message must be deleted, rules that follow the delete rule in the list of rules in the Out of Office Assistant dialog box do not affect the message."

I'm not sure if that helps you at all.

Mark

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Yeah, I've tried that
Jul 18, 2005 11:23PM PDT

None of the rules say "do not autoreply" or anything to that effect.

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I'm out of ideas then I'm afraid.
Jul 19, 2005 8:43AM PDT

Sorry but I can't think of anything else. Perhaps soneone else here will.

Mark