Greg Many thanks for your response and very good explanation of what happens - it is a shame the techs at the office couldn't explain it as clearly! I think the only way I can set up an out of office notification on the system is to go into the server with the old pc I used to use. Back to dark ages indeed!
Cheers Neil On 30/8/05 2:12 PM, "Greg Pennefather" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil > > Outlook for Windoze is able to send an out of office message because the > Exchange server it connects to does this. So when it receives mail for > someone with an out of office message set Exchange generates the reply. If > you are using Entourage with Exchange this may be possible - it certainly > will be for your Exchange admin. But if you use Entourage to POP off your > ISP then, unless your ISP's mail server allows you to, you can't set up the > out of office message. > > You can certainly use rules to generate a reply to all incoming mail but > your Mac needs to be connected in order to do this. Which probably defeats > the purpose. > > Basically the out of office reply is not a feature of the mail client > (Outlook or Entourage) but a feature of the mail server. > > Cheers > > Greg > > >> From: Neil Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:19:31 +0800 >> To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Entourage "out of office" notification >> >> Hi 'Muggers >> >> One for the Entourage gurus - can anyone help me set up a return e-mail >> notification to inform people sending mail to me when I am out of the >> office? I'd like to be able to replicate the Out of Office Autoreply >> feature in Outlook - but I can't seem to find anything similar in Entourage, >> although maybe something can be set up using rules? >> >> Cheers >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil Blake >> Regional Natural Resource Management Facilitator >> South Coast NRM Region >> C/- SCRIPT >> 444 Albany Highway >> ALBANY WA 6330 >> Ph: (08) 9892 8525 >> Fax: (08) 9841 2707 >> Mob: 0427 928 525 >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >> > > -- Neil Blake Regional Natural Resource Management Facilitator South Coast NRM Region C/- SCRIPT 444 Albany Highway ALBANY WA 6330 Ph: (08) 9892 8525 Fax: (08) 9841 2707 Mob: 0427 928 525
