exchange server rules help!!

[wulluff]

All i want to do is send out of office replies to all incoming mail - ie reply to all senders regardless of whether they've already received my out of office.

I can't see a way of doing this using the office assistant as it only specifies "reply once".

I can set up a rule in outlook but this will only run when outlook is running - is there a way around this??

frustrated of somewhere on a Friday afternoon

[sjg]

Don't use the out-of-office assistant - go via Rules & Alerts instead and set up a rule that does what you want. Something like "apply on messages I recieve, where my name is in the To or CC box, have server reply using a specific message".

Use it with care - modern versions of Exchange aren't too bad at detecting mail loops but you can quite easily cause one with older versions if you have two people with "auto-reply to everything, always" type rules.

[paddyhasneeds]

Also check that rules to the internet are enabled on your Exchange server too as by default they aren't (on all the versions I've used).