[Jester X]

Does Entourage 2004 have an "Out of Office" feature?

I just upgraded from Outlook 2001 connected to an Exchange 2003 server environment and now it seems I can create "Out of Office" messages when I travel. Please help. I'm looking like a fool because I petitioned hard to have the whole new Office Suite purchased and now the PC guys are laughing at me.

Thanks!
jX

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Not quite what the exchange boys do, but you can do something similar. Just set up a rule that states for all incoming messages, a reply is sent that you're out of office.

[Jester X]

Yikes... but doesn't that mean I need to keep my machine running with Entourage open?

Thanks for the fast response!
jX

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Yep. Although I'm unsure about how rules set up in Entourage affect the exchange server. You could also access the excange mail via a web browser and turn on the out of office assistant that way. That requires your company to have exchange set up with that access tho'.

As it stands, exchange support in OS X really does suck. Entourage barely qualifies s having support for it. We really need an exchange client for the Mac like in the OS 9 days.