Out of Office Exceptions:

When you enable OOO (Tools - Out of Office)



You are presented with the dialog box below. Click on the 4th tab, label Exceptions, and you will see several options.



The first is "Do not automatically reply to mail from internet addresses". This is a great option if you simply want to turn off all external notifications telling people that you are away. Don't worry, the people in your company will still be notified.

The second choice is "Do not automatically reply to mail from these people or groups". This provides a great way to eliminate sending responses to any of the mailing lists you belong to, or any other type of email that does not accept replies. For example, if you subscribe to daily newsletters, you don't want to be sending responses to these.

The third option, "Do not automatically reply to mail which is addressed to these groups", is similar to the option above. This is very useful if you belong to something like Yahoo or Google groups, or any type of listserv mailing list. Enter the name of the group email, and OOO will not send notifications.

The final option "Do not automatically reply if the subject contains these phrases" allows you to define at a very granular level which emails to not respond to.

When you are done, click Enable.

I hope this helps you get a little more out of the Out of Office Agent.