Auto-Reply for all messages without subject

To create a rule, follow next steps:

   1.   Create a template with text which you want to send like Auto-Reply. See Using templates to facilitate more versatile E-mail Distribution for more details.

   2.   Select Tools -> Rules and Alerts... to display the Rules and Alerts dialog box.

   3.   In the Rules and Alerts dialog box, choose New Rule...:

   4.   Choose the Start from a blank rule option and then the Check messages when they arrive option, click Next.

   5.   Choose conditions:

• If you want to limit the list of people who send you messages, choose one or several conditions:
  • from people or distribution list and click people or distribution list in the Step 2 text box to choose them:
    
  • which has an attachment
  • sender is in specified Address Book and click specified in the Step 2 text box to choose the Address Book.
  When you finish adding the conditions, click the Next button.
• If you want to use this rule for all incoming messages, click the Next button. Click Yes in the information dialog box:
  

   6.   Choose reply using a specific template in Step 1, then click a specific template in Step 2 and choose the template:

• In the Select a Reply Template dialog box, on the Look In list box, choose User Templates in File System:
  
• Click the Browse button and choose the path to your template in the Browse For Folder dialog box.
• In the Select a Reply Template dialog box, choose the template and then click Open.

When you choose a template, click Next.

   7.   Choose exceptions: select except if the subject contains specific words and click specific words in the Step 2 text box. You have to insert numbers and letters (or at least all vowel letters, because any phrase or word in the subject consists not less than one vowel letter):

   8.   Click Next again, name your rule, and click Finish.

Note: For some rules it is necessary to restart Outlook.