Outlook 2003 out of office message error!!

[StressedTechie]

I am trying to set an out of office message for one of my directors but when we click save the following message appears

"your out of office message cant be saved because your server limit on rules has been reached"

There are no rules associated with the mailbox any ideas

Cheers

 

[karmic]

Is this under OWA or the outlook client? How many rules does he have set up?

Is this along the lines of what you're looking for?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886616/

~ K.I.S.S - Don't make it any more complex than it has to be ~

 

[StressedTechie]

Hi guys I tried the above but to no avail.

Here is a bit more information
We are running SBS 2003 (Exchange server module is built in)
We are all running Windows XP service 3 with Office 2003 sp2.

Everyone seems okay apart from this one user, which just so happens to be a manager.

Anyway when he clicks out of office to set up a message while he is away from the office he instantly gets the message

"Your autoreply message could not be displayed. The client operation failed."

I click ok and you get into the OOO settings but when you click I out of the office you get
"Some rules have been modified, but have not been saved. do you wish to discard your changes" I click yes and the mamger is now set as out of office but no message is sent to the sender.

I have checked his rules and he has none setup, I have attemted to start outlook with the /cleanrules switch and I have alos tried reinstalling office. The problem is really annoying I cant seem to find any thing relevant on the internet.

I did see something on Symantec blocking out of office messages but we are running Sophos and nobody else seems to have the problem.

This problem also exists when accessing the mail box via OWA!!

Anyone got any ideas

Thanks in advance this has been confused

 

[StressedTechie]

I have double checked his rules and he doesnt have any setup. Could this be a curruption of some sort

Thanks