Microsoft Outllook-Out of Office Reply

no.
but that dosnt help lol.
im sure one of theese wise people will know

Andrew,

I have it at work and activate it for holidays etc. I have tried to set it at home but appears to be something that only works on a networked computer and only with other stations on the network.

Does not seem to operate from my computer to my mates so I assume it is only for networking.

I stand to be corrected.

Dave

Andrew,

For the Out of Office Assistant to work, you need to be connected to a mail server (one that is connected to the Internet permanently) that supports it.

For example, as has been mentioned, connected to an Exchange Server (the Microsoft flavour of email servers) . It allows for the user to apply the Out of Office setting against their mailbox settings which will allow such a message to be returned to senders even when the user is not using the email program.

In the case of most home users, its more of a temporary setup in terms of email connectivity. The email servers that an ISP run also have to cater for a wide variety of email programs so such features aren't made available (this is mainly due to the fact that it would create a large volume of 'junk' email traffic on their networks). There are some free email providers that do allow you to set up an automatic reply message, but they are few and far between. For such a feature you have to start coughing up the $$$.

If you have your own domain, most of the email facilities that are provided along with the domain allow for you to setup autorespond messages.

hope i haven't confused you too much

cheers,
Sam.

I don't think you can do it - you might have to stay at home.....

Andrew

P.S. - I have booked eight weeks off next year in August / September for a Kimberley trip so let me know if it is any good up there.

Thanks for your help everyone.
Looks like I can't do it.
Oh well!