Those directions were spot on for me and I'm using Outlook 2007, although we are still on Exchange 2003 at the moment. That might explain the differences. Jamie Nelson | Systems Engineer | Systems Support, Information Technology | I N T E G R I S Health | Phone 405.552.0903 | Fax 405.553.5687 | http://www.integrisok.com <http://www.integrisok.com/> From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cruz, Jerome L Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:36 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: list administrivia --- Out of Office notifications The Office Outlook 2007 interface is quite a bit different. Can someone suggest the proper steps? I couldn't quite get it to work because it required an action to take. I believe that it'll look similar to the following, but I got stuck at the Action step. 1. Open the "Out-of-office Assistant..." under the "Tools" Menu 2. Click on "Send Out of Office auto-replies" 3. Click on the "Outside My Organization (Off) tab 4. Click on the "Auto-reply to people outside my organization" checkbox and make sure the "Anyone outside my organization" radio button is selected [Note: On my device, the text "AutoReply only once to each sender with the following messages" was visible in the dialog, but there was no option to turn it either on or off...perhaps that is in a different interface] 5. Click on the "Rules..." button. 6. Click on the "Add Rule..." button 7. In the "Edit Rule" dialog, put in the addresses of mailing lists and people you don't want to autoreply to in the "Sent To" section (i.e. gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx). 8. Click the "Advanced" button and select the "Only items that do not match these conditions" checkbox, click "OK" to close the "Advanced" dialog. 9. (This is where I got stuck and needed to enter some kind of 'action') 10. Click "OK" to close the "Edit Rule" dialog. 11. In the "Outside My Organization (Off)" tab, type in a short message that you wish to use as your out-of-office notification for those outside your organization. 12. Click the "OK" button in the "Out of Office Assistant" dialog when you are actually away. Jerry From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nelson, Jamie R Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:11 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: list administrivia --- Out of Office notifications This is pretty easy to do if using Outlook by simply creating an "Out of Office" rule. 1. Open the "Out-of-office" assistant under the "Tools" Menu 2. Make sure the "AutoReply only once to each sender with the following text" text box is empty 3. Select the "Add Rule" option 4. In the window, put in the addresses of mailing lists and people you don't want to autoreply to in the "Sent To" section (i.e. gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx). Then click the "Advanced" button and select "Only items that do not match these conditions", click OK to close the advanced window. 5. In the "Perform these actions" box, select "Reply" and check on the template button. Type in a short message that you wish to use as your out-of-office notification. 6. Click OK, and make sure the "I am currently out of the office" option is set when you are actually away. Regards, Jamie Nelson | Systems Engineer | Systems Support, Information Technology | I N T E G R I S Health | Phone 405.552.0903 | Fax 405.553.5687 | http://www.integrisok.com <http://www.integrisok.com/> From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:50 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] list administrivia --- Out of Office notifications Hi Folks- Just a quick note to the GPTalk list. If you are subscribed to the list from an email system that supports Out of Office notifications, please turn off sending of those notifications to the list, so that folks posting here don't get barraged with everyone's vacation notices J. I'm pretty sure that if you are running Exchange, you can choose to selectively not send OoO notices to external addresses and that would be much welcome. Thanks, Darren ________________________________ This e-mail may contain identifiable health information that is subject to protection under state and federal law. This information is intended to be for the use of the individual named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be punishable by law. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify us immediately by electronic mail (reply). ________________________________