Outlook Out of Office Assistant 1

[jbanker]

I've been trying to get a Reply template to work in Outlook 2000 Out of Office Assistant. It appears that it should just "work", but nothing I do seems to get it to respond.

Does anyone know how to get the silly thing to work? B-(

 

[smah]

Here are the instructions, but are you using an Exchange server? If not, the out of office assistant doesn't work. MSKB Article 260987 shows how you can emulate the out of office assistant with regular mail rules.

 

[jbanker]

Thanks for the information. The only problem I have is that even with the template, it appears you can ONLY send it in plain text. The reason I wanted to use the reply template was so I could include pictures. Any suggestions?

 

[zbnet]

Yeah, don't. Pictures will hugely increase the size of the response, people don't expect to see big autoresponse messages.

 

[jbanker]

The pictures weren't large, but to be honest you aren't getting the point. There doesn't seem to be much point in using a template if it's going to look exactly like a text message you can send without the work. And if it can send attachments, then why not pictures?

I'm not expecting an answer, just venting my frustrations on imposed limitations.

 

[tanneddevil]

what you can do is set up a rule using the wizard
check messages when they arrive
have server reply using _________

then u can edit the template and include a picuture