Create an Auto Reply in Outlook Web Access

Background:

Outlook Web Access uses the Out of Office Assistant to create automatic replies to email.

Each person who writes to you gets one out of office message. It is never resent to that person.

Employees use auto replies to advise correspondents that they are out of the office and may not check email regularly, e.g. when on vacation or semester holidays.

Students might use auto replies to let correspondents know that they have a new address, e.g. after graduation and before their Skidmore College account is closed (one year after graduation). Employees might use the reply to note a new address at a new job or to note an absence while on vacation or at a conference.

Important Note: The following automatic replies only work on-campus. That is, they are sent only to people with Skidmore email addresses.

Access the Out of Office Assistant :

1. Log into Outlook Web Access .

2. Click the Options button or the Go to options button in the Navigation Pane.

Options Button when Navigation Pane is Expanded	Go to Options Button when Navigation Pane is Collapsed

3. Type a message in the AutoReply text box.

4. Click the radio button to turn on the setting "I'm currently out of the office"

5. At the top of the "Options" window, click the Save and Close button.

Stop the Out of Office Assistant:

1. You stop the auto reply in the same place that you created it.

2. Click the Options button to see Out of Office Assistant.

3. Click the radio button to say "I'm currently in the office"

4. At the top of the "Options" window, click the Save and Close button.

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Maintained by Brien G. Muller

IT Help Desk, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Rev. 2008.08.27