Note: If you are not using an Exchange account, you can use the guide 'Out of Office Assistant / Automatic Replies / Vacation Responder' for alternative ways to set an Automatic Reply. You can also enable the Automatic Replies feature for internal users and only send external Automatic Replies to a select amount of contacts via an additional rule.Īn alternative approach would be to completely emulate the Automatic Replies feature by using a rule so you can be fully in control of who gets your reply and who doesn’t.

You cannot directly set this level of exception for the Automatic Replies feature (also known as the Out of Office Assistant or OOF) in Outlook but there are a few methods available to still closely achieve this.įor instance, you can configure the Automatic Replies feature to only reply to external people who are within your Contacts folder. How can I prevent Automatic Replies to reply to certain addresses?

I’d like to enable the Automatic Replies (Out of Office Assistant) feature, but it really shouldn’t send out an Automatic Reply to various addresses, like for instance mailing lists which I am a member of.

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