If you check the Preferences from Comcast.net you will see an option for auto-reply. This would be the closest you can come to Out of Office Assistant without Exchange.

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After furious head scratching, Dave in Franklin, TN asked:

| Thanks for the reply. I will investigate the "vacation" avenue. Do
| you have any experience with Comcast and their capabilities?
|
| "Gordon" wrote:
|
|| "Dave in Franklin, TN"
|| wrote in message
|| ...
||| My wife is starting a new business venture from home and is used to
||| many features in Outlook from her old company. I've learned that
||| some feature are
||| not available because our home computer is not set up using
||| Microsoft Exchange Server, but an Internet mail service. Is there
||| any way around this?? Can I set up a single home computer to
||| utilize MS Exchange Server?
||
||
|| You can but the cost-benefit would be WAY out. You may find that
|| your ISP has a "vacation" message service on its webmail server.....
|| Otherwise you can set up a rule to replicate this. But, be aware
|| that doing this would entail your PC being on 27/7 and Outlook up
|| and running 24/7......