Out of the office? Reply to messages with Outlook

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rreategui — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:06:15 GMT

I will be out of the office until Monday September 3rd - I will have limited access to my mail

re: Out of the office? Reply to messages with Outlook

rabbas — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:51:36 GMT

is it possible to make your out of office auto response to reply every time an email is sent from the same sender during your out of office time span rather than only the first time. When i am out of office for an extended time my clients forget between day 1 and day 5 that i am out for 5 more days and wonder why I am not responding to them.

re: Out of the office? Reply to messages with Outlook

Leslie Cole — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:05:21 GMT

Hi Valerie,

I haven't found the answer to your question, but if you want more people helping you sort through this, contact answers.microsoft.com.

Thanks for reading Office Blogs!

Leslie

re: Out of the office? Reply to messages with Outlook

Valerie R — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:31:45 GMT

One of my staff left the company, and I'd like to set up his out of office message to reply to EVERY incoming email (not just once to each sender, which is the default). I've set up a rule with a reply template; this works, but Outlook ALSO sends a blank email with "out of office" in the subject line.

Do you know how I can stop the blank email from being sent?

Thanks for your help!

Valerie

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resume help — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:41:19 GMT

Thank you for this post. It's really useful.

re: Out of the office? Reply to messages with Outlook

Leslie Cole — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:22:19 GMT

Thanks for your tip, Jane! And thanks for reading The Office Blogs.

Leslie

re: Out of the office? Reply to messages with Outlook

Jane Parker — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:02:48 GMT

Hello,

Its really a good feature to send automatic replies to others when you are not available to reply the incoming mails. Out of Office Assistant is available for exchange server accounts but by creating rules one can still create this feature. To check whether you are using an exchange account, open inbox folder and then go to Tools menu and check for Out of Office Assistant option.

Regards

Jane