On 1 Feb 99, at 8:39, Debby Maley wrote:

> My boss received an intercompany, automatically generated e-mail
> reply from someone who was out of their office. She wants to know how
> she can do this when she is out of the office.
>
> We are on a Windows NT WAN. Our site currently uses Windows
> Messaging V4.0 on the workstations as our e-mail client. (I believe
> our mail server is running MS Mail.) Other sites within our company
> use Outlook and other e-mail clients. I cannot not find any
> information about how to do this with Windows Messaging. Am I correct
> that this is not a feature available in Windows Messaging and that
> the automated reply she received must have been generated via another
> e-mail client, like Outlook? If this can be done in Windows
> Messaging, can someone please let me know how? Thank you very much.

  Since the away person wasn't at their desk to *run* the mail client,
the message probably wasn't generated by client software.  This is
almost certainly a feature of the *server* software that is used at
that site.
  So in your case, you want to find out if MS Mail has this feature.  I
would be a bit surprised if it does, but I don't know for sure.

  In my experience, automated replies like this don't work very well if
one is subscribed to mailing lists like PCSOFT.  But it might work okay
for your boss...


David G

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