

Since this runs primarily on people's own machines, why is it limited to Microsoft Exchange only? This limitation seems petty and arbitrary.

The employees of most every medium to large business make extensive use of out of office messages, so why can't they have a real tool for business that let's them look as good out of the office as Outlook signatures do at other times?

I know that out of office messages are used in a great many places. In fact, there should at least be the ability to use the account signatures already created for use with Outlook by the end user to out of office messages for any email account checked by Outlook. Since this runs primarily on people's own machines, why is it limited to Microsoft Exchange only? This limitation seems petty and arbitrary.You can insert Date & Time in emails and have it update automatically, so why can't you insert a and tags in an out of office reply and have them automatically filled in with the selected start and end times already entered for the replies?.You could even have different signatures for "Inside My Organization" and "Outside My Organization" saved. Just add the Signatures dialog box and let us choose a signature to append to the outgoing messages.How hard could it be to fix these things? Out of office replies only work for Microsoft Exchange accounts.No insertion of start or end dates using tags so that, once you have created a nice out of office email, you could simply reuse it by changing the start and end dates of your office absence.You cannot include images (like company logos) in out of office messages.

