Look for it on the File menu is Outlook 2010 or on the Tools menu in older versions.

When you use Rules Wizard to send Out-of-office replies, Outlook needs to be running and checking mail regularly for the reply to be sent.

Using your servers vacation reply feature allows the response to be sent when the message arrives, not when Outlook downloads it.

Auto reply with away message templates; change your status and reply templates remotely.

Change or schedule your free-busy status manually (Away, Out of Office, Vacation, Tentative, Custom) or use you Microsoft Outlook Calendar or Skype availability status.

While Outlook rules only run as messages are downloaded or when you click Run Rules now, Auto-Mate rules run on a schedule, enabling you to apply rules to messages that have been in your Inbox for a given number of hours, days or weeks.

The body of autoreply message includes the original message text.

If one is found then an auto-reply message will be sent to this address.

If an original message has no Reply-To: address field then an auto-reply message will be sent to the From: address of the original message.

The subject line of the auto-reply message consists of the prefix (Confirmation:, Autoreply: etc) and the Subject line of original message; the body of auto-reply message will include the original message text.

Various extensions can handle such tasks as mailing list subscriptions.

Has some issues with Outlook 2002 -- make sure you get the latest update, disable RTF templates, and dont try to use ET as a custom action in Rules Wizard.

Offers unlimited rule capacity (only limited by your computer hardware), quick folder find, attachment renaming, and Bayesian antispam mail filtering.

She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook.

You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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