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Book X
Chapter 1
Staying in Touch
No Matter Where
You Are
Letting the Out of Office Assistant Handle Mail While You’re Gone
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You created a template for your out-of-office replies. Now, onto stage 2, creat-
ing a rule to use it:
1. Choose Tools➪Rules and Alerts➪New Rule.
The Rules Wizard dialog box appears. See Figure 1-8.
2. In the Start From a Blank Rule section, Select Check Messages When
They Arrive and click Next.
3. Set conditions to define which messages get replies.
For example, you can send replies only to messages sent directly to you
and no one else by choosing Sent Only to Me.
You can set more limiting conditions if you want, or select none at all if
you want this to apply to all incoming e-mail. Click Next. If you set up a
rule that applies to every message you get, click Yes.
4. In the What Do You Want to Do With the Message? list, choose Reply
Using a Specific Template, as shown in Figure 1-9.
5. Click the A Specific Template link shown in the bottom of the
dialog box.
Figure 1-7:
Create the
message
you want to
send when
you’re out of
the office.
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