Auto-responders within Outlook only work when the user is logged in.
The alternative is to set an Out of Office message against the account - which is fine other than it only works the once and the fact that it says "out of office" in its message.
I'm looking for a way of setting an auto-responder like this which will respond to any email sent to an account without using the 'Out of Office' prefix.
Basically, I need to have a response sent to every email sent to the account - an acknowledgement..."Thanks for your message - we'll be in touch", etc. - But I need this to send straight away, not be triggered when the user logs in.
The only way I can think of achieving this is to have another machine permanently "on" and logged into Outlook to capture any out of hours incoming emails. Not practical for us. Is there a way around this does anyone know?

Cheers,

N.