When you are away from your computer and your email account, who will reply
to all those emails?
Windows Mail or Outlook Express dutifully will.
Of course, it does not exactly have your type of spontaneity and quick wit,
but if you have a permanent internet connection and can leave your computer
running at your office, home or home office, it will send a canned reply
informing people you are out of the office.
Ideally, you will include in your automatic replies when you expect to be
back and replying in person so your contacts can adjust their actions.
and here is how to Set up a Vacation Auto-Response in Windows Mail or
Outlook Express
. Open Notepad.
. Type the message you want to appear in the body of your autoresponse.
. Select File | Save from the menu.
. Type "Vacation Auto-Reply" under File name:.
. Make sure Text Documents (*.txt) is selected under Save as type:.
. Click Save.
. Close Notepad.
. Open Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
. Select Tools | Message Rules | Mail... from the menu.
. Go to the Mail Rules tab.
. Click New....
. Make sure Where the To or CC line contains people is checked under Select
the Conditions for your rule:.
. Alternatively, you can check For all messages. It usually makes sense to
reply automatically only to messages sent directly to your email address,
however.
. Under Select the Actions for your rule:, check Reply with message.
. Click on the contains people link under Rule Description.
. Type your email address.
. Click Add.
. If you have more than one address, repeat the previous two steps.
then, . Click OK.
. Now click the message link, also under Rule Description.
. Select Text (*.txt) from the Files of type: drop-down menu.
. Highlight the "Vacation Auto-Reply" file.
. Click Open.
. Under Name of the rule:, type something like "Vacation Auto-Reply" as
well.
. Click OK.
. Click OK again.
To turn off the out-of-office auto-responder without deleting the rule:
. Select Tools | Message Rules | Mail... from the menu in Windows Mail or
Outlook Express.
. Make sure your "Vacation Auto-Reply" filter is not checked on the Mail
Rules tab.
. Click OK.
enjoy, i hope this helps.
ramy
skype: kimo_2485
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Dicey" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:03 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] auto response
Dear Yvonne,
If you find out anything about this feature in Outlook Express, will you
please let me know also?
Thanks so much!
With Best Regards,
Alan
Miami, Florida
Alan Dicey, President
United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA
"Yes, Blind or Visually Impaired People Can, and Do, Play Chess!!!"
United States Braille Chess Association Home Page:
http://AmericanBlindChess.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "yvonne oliver" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] auto response
hi Alan
thank you for reply.
unfortunately i have not gained a lot from the reply
i have been told that such a response message is part of outlook express
although i have never found it in outlook express
there are 2 people that i am going to ask but won't hold out much hope
but you never know.
you heard the term " you only have to ask me"
that's exactly what i will do.
i will ask everyone in person as well as the lists i subscribe to
and someone somewhere should be able to at least point me in the right
direction.
sobs law states that everything happens at least once in a lifetime so i
will continue to prove that wrong.
Yvonne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] auto response
Yvonne,
I'm not sure if there are external programs that do this but
back prior to retiring, I used Outlook at the office on an
exchange server and an option under tools or actions was the
out of office assistant. You could customize your message
and control how it was sent out. I just looked on my home
version of outlook and don't see that option. Another thing
you may want to check out is many groups that I'm currently
part of greatly frown on auto responders and some have this
as grounds to be excluded from the list. Hope this helps.
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of
yvonne
oliver
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Blind-Computing] auto response
hi
i noticed this when i was sighted but never took a lot of
notice of it or what it does or what it was really used for.
and of course it was not as widely used then as it is today
i am referring to the auto response message that goes to a
person sending an email when a person is unavailable to deal
with it for some reason
for example 1 of these is used when a person is away from
the office and is worded something like this
" i am currently out of the office until 1st October.
does anyone know where i can get one of these auto response
message boards and how much they are and of course is there
a charge to use them?
thank you
Yvonne
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