To have your Exchange account reply to new messages automatically (even when Outlook for Mac is not running):
- SelectTools | Out of Office…from the menu in Outlook for Mac.
- Make sureSend Out Of Office messagesis selected.
- Enter the desired message underReply to messages with:
- Include when — or if — people mailing you in your absence can expect a personal answer. This might be some time after you will have returned.
- Make sureMore optionsare visible.
- If you know when you will be unavailable:
- Make sureI am out of the office between.
- Enter the date and time you'll leave behind email underStart date:.
- Enter the date and time you'll be back underEnd date:.
- To have Exchange send messages not only to people in your organization:
- Make sureSend replies outside my company to:is checked.
- SelectAddress Book contacts onlyorAnyone outside my company.
- Enter the desired message for the out-of-office reply for senders outside your organization underReply once to each sender outside my company with:.
- You can leave out contact details in this message for the world, for example.
- ClickOK.