Lotus Notes Out Of Office

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Lotus notes out of office. How to create an out of office reply in lotus notes if you are going to be out of the office for more than a few days you may want to set up an out of office agent in notes when enabled the out of office agent will automatically reply to your incoming mail notifying the sender that you are out of the office and will return on a specific date. In lotus notes 8 5 the notification of our absence is sent immediately. How do i make the out of office option visible in lotus notes.
I will enable it if i am training for the day as usually i can t get to my e mails until later that day or the next day. I actually use my out of office not just for when i am on leave. The out of office functionality is one of the most widely used features of the ibm lotus notes mail template.
This functionality has been completely re written for ibm lotus notes and domino 8 and in this article we examine the changes in this feature compare the new feature set to the old one and discuss why and when you may want to use the earlier functionality rather than the new one. In addition the mail router a server task responsible for delivering messages to user mailboxes and transporting messages between the servers has new functionality called the out of office service that offers a. It was usually available under the tools drop down but now only preferences is visible under this drop down.
You can make a number of different settings in the next step after selecting out of office in ibm notes. Select out of office. These screenshots refer to ibm lotus notes versions 8 5 3 and later.
I am using lotus notes 8 5. Settings that you have to make. In 1998 we published an article called â œdemystifying the out of office agent â although this article has remained well read over the years and is still applicable to users running notes domino releases 4 5 and 5 x many things have changed since we published it.