Try this, hope it helps:

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/oooa.htm
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Kathleen Orland
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" wrote:

I want to send an out of office reply to incoming emails. but Office
2003 tells me I can't do it unless I am using a Microsoft Exchange
Server email account (which I am not). On his way out the door on
vacation my IT guy said I could uses Rules to create an OOO reply
mesage but so far I've not been able to discern exactly what he meant.
Can anyone lead me down the correct path? Thanks! Steve Ignots