The Away Status is for Instant Messaging. Are you looking for an Out Of
Office type of reply?

If you do this, you will have to leave your computer on 24/7, be connected
to the Internet, and have OE open. If you want do this anyway, the link
below will explain how to do it. One thing I would suggest is that where it
says to create a rule and check For All Messages, you change it and make the
rule for people in your address book only. Otherwise you will be replying to
Spam as well.

Your ISP may offer this service which would be a better choice.

http://www.cyberwalker.com/columns/feb01/080201.html
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Earl Partridge" wrote in message
...
IE/OE 7 - Windows XP
In message rules I set a rule to Reply With Message and included an ".eml"
file. I get an
error "Your message rules did not Forward or Reply to 1 message(s) because
the message
would have been sent to one of your accounts." This sounds as though the
error is because
I sent myself a test and the reply is trying to send back to me through that
server. The ISP
is Charter.net. Could this be something that could be configured to allow
it?

Also, in OE7 Help, the "Away Status" indicates under Tools | My Online
Status... I don't
have that option in Tools.

Earl