Advice on Out of office please

[clairemackaness]

I have microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and as it is a home version it does not have the Out of Office function.

I am going away in a couple of weeks and need to send an out of office sort of reply to everyone who e-mails me, is there a way this can be done using auto formatting or something?

No techy replies please!

 

[DuaneJackson]

Who hosts your email?

Some of our customers have the same problem. To get around it they just log in to their webmail and set the out-of-office from there.

 

[clairemackaness]

BT Yahoo.

Can I do it from webmail?

 

[clairemackaness]

popping out for lunch with Ma & Pa, please keep the suggestions coming I'll pick up on them all when I get back.
Thanks

 

[creospace]

With your own domain name you could set up an autoresponder to reply to any mails that come in?

I have no expereince of btyahoo registration and hosting so no idea.

Gary

 

[confused]

a very simple solution would be to create a message rule to reply to messages.

 

[DuaneJackson]

IF you do that, make sure you leave your computer on and connected to the internet while you are away.

 

[confused]

oh yeah, very good point lol, mine are on 24/7 and I often forget that not everyone does the same!

 

[clairemackaness]

No can do leaving the PC on as Hubby will be using it for his stuff and it's a different login.

Looks as if I'll have to ask him to check and reply to my e-mails each day. Or log on to my webmail at the hotel each day.

Thanks for the advice though

 

[Urban Space]

But when I emailed the headteacher of the school I want to do my work experience with, I got an automatic message which said he had received my email. I sent it out of school hours and I know they don't have their computers on 24/7.

Silly bloke hasn't got back next to me yet :x!

Liam

 

[clairemackaness]

Liam, they probably have the out of office function on their version of outlook

 

[Urban Space]

Owel, Just trying to help! !

Liam

 

[confused]

You need to realise that in a school or organaisation is totally different, they will have a mail server such as exchange to handle the mail, then pass mail to the relevant users as requested via outlook or whatever.
Back to the original question, if using XP which I assume you are, why not logon as you, open outlook and setup as mentioned to reply, then swith user to hubby - still not turning pc off. your programs (in this case outlook) will continue to run.

CALV

 

[clairemackaness]

I think I'll just pay to check it at the hotel, that way I can assure myself its all in order LOL Hubby cant be trusted.