Out of Office Assistant

Question

Out of Office Assistant

I apologise if this is a stupid question.

When I take a break from work on a Windows PC I use out of office assistant to let people know I'm away and when their email will receive a response.

I cannot find a way to do this in Mail. Am I missing something?

Thank you.

Simon

PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Jul 17, 2007 1:49 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

Matt Clifton

Level 7

29,975 points

Jul 17, 2007 2:41 AM in response to Simon McDonald

Hi Simon

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!

You can set up a mail rule in Apple Mail. Go to Preferences, Rules. Set up a rule with the following criteria:

If any: Every Message
Perform the following actions: Reply to message
and edit the Reply message text for your specific out-of-office period.
Then make sure the rule is ticked active.

However, it's often better (for both Windows and Mac) to set this up in the webmail interface for your mail, if you have one. This way, you don't have to leave your computer on 24/7 just to trigger the mail rules whenever someone sends you an email.

For example, in .Mac webmail, you go to Preferences - Other - Forwarding, and set an auto-reply message.
In Outlook Web Access (for Exchange accounts), you go to Options - Out of Office Assistant.

Matt

Reply