How can I set an out of office reply for my additional mailboxes in Outlook?

April 4, 2008 2:02 PM

How can I set an out of office reply for my additional mailboxes in Outlook?

I'm not sure why this is so complicated, surely I can't be the only person who needs to do this.

For work, I have my main inbox and two additional inboxes set up in Outlook. Previously, in order to set an out of office reply, our technology guys had to set up a password for the mailbox and then I had to login via webmail to set up an out of office reply for that mailbox.

I just had a new mailbox added a few days ago and will be out of the office and haven't been able to get an individual password set up for this mailbox. Is there anyway I can do this through Outlook? If I can do it via webmail why not any other way?

posted by unsigned to computers & internet (5 comments total)

The auto-reply you created through webmail probably existed on the server, that is, the auto-reply got sent before the mail ever go to you Outlook client. Here's instructions on creating one in Outlook:

http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et_auto_reply.htm
posted by bizwank at 2:11 PM on April 4, 2008

Hm, but that's only if I leave Outlook running, right?
posted by unsigned at 2:38 PM on April 4, 2008

Yes, Outlook would need to be running in order to take action on an incoming mail; the only other option is to have the mail server do it.

When you set up the new mailbox in Outlook, you had to enter a password for it, correct? Have you tried using this password on the Webmail interface? In my experiences they are often the same...
posted by bizwank at 2:49 PM on April 4, 2008

No I didn't have to set up a password for it - but if I did then I would log in to the mailbox via webmail and set it up there (how I did it previously).

Since I don't have a password for it, I'm trying to set it up through Outlook (on the mail server). Is that not possible?

Thank you!
posted by unsigned at 2:53 PM on April 4, 2008

Okay - got an answer - if you set up seperate profiles for each mailbox by going to Mail in the control panel, then Outlook can be started with one of these as the primary mailbox which means you can use the out of office assistant from the menu as usual. Means you have to restart Outlook for each mailbox though.
posted by unsigned at 3:57 PM on April 4, 2008