Hi Diane,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I have several emails inb my Inbox, one each from several people in my
Contacts folder, also two from myself (one each from my ISP account and my
gmail account). Should the auto-reply rule work in this case?

Is this what you mean?

Regards,
Paul


"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
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autoreply rules only work for the first message from a person.

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"Paul Moore" wrote in message
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Hello,

I've been trying to set up an auto-reply rule in Outlook 2003 home (that
is, using my POP account with my ISP). I am in the process of changing my
ISP, and want to send an auto-reply message to all entries in my Outlook
contacts folder.

I specified the following conditions in the rule:
- sender is in Contacts address book, and on this machine only
- reply using C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\New address.oft

The template contains a simple update email text message, the recipient
and subject fields are empty.

I treid testing the rule by sending a message to myself, from both my ISP
account and from Gmail. I already have an entry for myself in the Outlook
contacts folder for these two addresses.

When I test the rule on the Inbox folders, no auto-reply messages are
sent, or even queued for sending in the Outbox folder.
Is there a better way to test and debug this this, for example by
examining a log file somewhere?

Many thanks,
Paul