Out of Office problem for 2000 but not 2003 (multiple replies)

**jlongo12345** · 15-04-2010

Hi All,

For 2003: I set up an out of office list for a specific set of people so that when they send me an email (and my out of office is turned on), they will receive my out of office message.

For someone not on this list, they will NOT receive an out of office acknowledgement.

I did this by creating a rule in my out of office assistant. In my from list, I added all the people I'd like my out of office message to reply to. I choose reply with and created a template with a subject "Out of Office" and in the Body "I'm currently out of the office bla bla bla". Did not enter anyone in the To: section (this should be fairly obvious).

This works perfect!!

Now for 2000 for my boss would doesn't want to upgrade to 2003: I did the same exact thing, there's actually more options with 2000, but I didn't need to use any of them. Added a new rule in my out of office assistant, set up my From: list and picked reply with template.

Now when someone on the list sends me an email when my out of office is on...they receive two email messages. One that says AutoReply out of office and the other is my template.

I do not know why this autoreply email is showing.

No text is in the Autoreplay on the first screen of the out of office assistant (where you say you are or aren't currently in the office).

So I have no idea...any help would be great. Thank you in advance.

**jlongo12345** · 17-04-2010

For further information:

The sender who is on the list is receiving 2 replies.

One is from the AutoReply on the first screen of OOOAssistant. But it's blank so its just sending an email with the subject Autoreply out of office.

Then my rule comes into effect and sends out the Template.

I've googled this so much, found some similar stuff, but it seems no one is having my exact problem.

**jlongo12345** · 19-04-2010

Is there a way to disable this autoreply feature in outlook other than saying you are currently in the office??

Like maybe edit the computers registry or some other way along those lines??

Thank you in advance.