Outlook Express "away" messages

[Welly]

How do you set an "I'm away on leave, ring some other poor sod" message in Outlook?

I get them from other people but I can't find how to do it?

I'm going to Alicante next week

(Ford Focus TDCi Hire Car review coming soon )

(possible beach Booby-shots too for Puggy )

[Captain Jack]

Don't think you can do it in Outlook Express*, but you can in Outlook... but only if you're connected to Exchange.

Tools > Out Of Office Assistant.

*Well, you can do in Outlook Express too but you'd need to leave your PC on.

[puggy]

About fookin time !!! I was wondering when my yearly treat was due

[Welly]

Cheers Cap'n. I've just had a look in "Message Rules" and you can create a new rule to "reply with message" and type the text you want in there.

I'll give it a try first.

[Captain Jack]

Yep, but you need to leave your PC on with Outlook running (unless you're on Exchange that is).

[Welly]

Cheers, weird leaving the PC on isn't it? oh well.

[lofty]

Did someone mention pictures of Boobies???

[Welly]

Did someone mention pictures of Boobies???

I managed to get a lame "paparazzi" style zoomed-in shot a couple of years ago on the beach when her indoors went off to fetch me a Drink I bottled it last year though.

I also do 'requests'

[Doggy]

I'm going to Alicante next week

Enjoy your hols, Welly

(Ford Focus TDCi Hire Car review coming soon )

Secretly yearns to overcome petrol addiction - (don't try to pull away in second in Henry's version)....

(possible beach Booby-shots too for Puggy )

Mrs Welly will understand so long as they're for Puggy
What can possibly go wrong....

[SimonTNUK]

What can possibly go wrong....

Mrs Welly noticing the booby shots being shot might be construed as 'going wrong' by Welly.
Particularly if she should decide that some form of revenge is appropriate

[Welly]

Don't worry, I'll be very carefull

Actually the hire car was a nightmare to secure this time and the cost has gone up horribly over there....£250.00 for a week's hire (was £170.00 last year).

[Welly]

I figured out how to do an "outofoffice" reply from an internet guide - it worked ok but when I got back to 2247 unread emails I figured something was playing up. I was getting an undelivered message email (2247 of them) but I think it had something to do with the read receipts? maybe I should've turned that bit off?

Anyhoo the way to do it is to create a .TXT file from notepad (listen at me eh?)

It's all here if you're interested.........http://www.cyberwalker.com/article/213/14/1

Now, when you want to set the away 'rule' in future you can just tick an 'outofoffice' box and it does the rest