By default, the out-of-office message does not reply to mail received on weekends. However, your administrator, if he or she has the proper access, may be willing to change the server agent's schedule so that the message works on weekends.

Note The out-of-office message is not an automatic broadcast; someone must send you a message in order to see it.

While you are gone, Notes sends only one message to each person who sends you mail, no matter how many messages the person sends you. On the return date you specify, Notes starts sending you daily "Welcome Back" messages until you disable out-of-office mail. The "Welcome Back" message includes, for your convenience, a list of the people Notes sent messages to while you were out.

Tip If you need to see the mail that arrives at your office before you return there, consider setting up a rule to send a copy of each incoming message to a different address. Or consider using iNotes Web Access to open your mail from the Internet.

Click any of these topics:

• To enable out-of-office mail
• To disable out-of-office mail

1. Open your mail database and choose Actions - Tools - Out of Office.

2. On the Dates tab, specify the dates on which you are leaving and returning. The out-of-office agent responds to incoming mail for all the days you specify, no matter how far in advance you enable the agent.

3. (Optional) Do any of the following:

	What do you want to do?	Procedure
	Keep the specified dates available for meeting invitations	On the Dates tab, deselect "Book Busytime for these dates."
	Change the message or subject of the message that Notes sends	Click "Out of Office Message" and change the subject or message.
	Send a different message to certain people	Click "Special Message," specify the names of people in the To field, click the field below Subject, and type the message.
	Cancel replies to certain people or groups	Click Exceptions and specify one or more names in the "Do not automatically reply to mail from these people and groups" field. To select names from an address book, click the button to the right of the field.
	Cancel replies to messages sent to groups that you're part of	Click Exceptions and specify one or more group names in the "Do not automatically reply to mail which is addressed to these groups" field.
	Cancel replies to messages whose subject contains certain text	Click Exceptions and specify the text in the "Do not automatically reply if the subject contains these phrases" field.
	Cancel replies to people who send you Internet mail	Click Exceptions and select "Do not automatically reply to mail from Internet addresses."

4. Click Enable. If Notes asks which server to run the out-of-office agent on, choose your home server and click OK. If Notes shows a message stating which server you have requested, click OK. Notes runs the out-of-office agent on your home server until you disable it.

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To disable out-of-office mail

1. Open your mail database and choose Actions - Tools - Out of Office.

2. Click Disable and then click Yes and OK as many times as necessary.

Note The Enable button becomes Disable when the agent is enabled.

See Also

Mail and Address Book
Delegating access to your mail database
Automating Tasks Using Simple Agents
Access levels for a database