Need help quick!! Going on a trip, how do I set up a automate email response?

[stso]

As title. Leaving in 3 hours.
I will take my laptop with me, but my primary email account doens't have web based.
So I will not be able to check them on the go.
How do I set up a automatic response??

By the way, I'm not using outlook, I'm using a very plain simple email software, and it doesn't have such feature in it.
Any help is appriciated. Thanks.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: stso
As title. Leaving in 3 hours.
I will take my laptop with me, but my primary email account doens't have web based.
So I will not be able to check them on the go.
How do I set up a automatic response??

By the way, I'm not using outlook, I'm using a very plain simple email software, and it doesn't have such feature in it.
Any help is appriciated. Thanks.

This is something done at the server level, not the client level.

 

[stso]

How do I do that??

 

[Huz]

Originally posted by: stso
How do I do that??

Sounds like you're using POP3 mail. I don't know of any way to set up an automated response through a basic POP3 type account. I don't think it can be done, but if someone knows a way, enlighten us. If you can build an Exchange server in 3 hours though, you'll be in business.

You need an enterprise type mail server on the back-end. Exchange server controls the Out of Office auto-reply functionality found in Outlook.

 

[denali]

In Unix/Linux you can use a .vacation file.

 

[stso]

Originally posted by: denali
In Unix/Linux you can use a .vacation file.

Is there online service that can do this for me? I am on WIndows 2000

 

[stso]

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