A Cool Vacation Rule That Works

1	Click Tools, Rules, Create. Type a name for the rule, something like "Useful, Re-Usable Vacation Rule."
2	Make sure that under When Event Is, New Item is selected, and Received is selected.
3	Under Item Types, select the item types you care about. If you don't want your auto-reply to go out to appointment setters, don't select appointments. Hey, it's your rule.
4	Click Define Conditions. Here's the tricky part. This is where the meat of the rule lives.
5	In the first pop-up menu, click All Fields, then find and click Delivered. (As opposed to Stand and (click) Delivered.)
6	In the next pop-up menu, select On or After, then in the next box, replace the date that appears (probably today's date, which is just GroupWise trying to be helpful) with the date you're leaving for Fiji. Dates are configured with the next small box and pop-up menu: the small box contains a number that you set, and the pop-up menu contains a time frame that you set. For example, if your vacation begins in three days, set the box for 3and the pop-up menu for Today -- this indicates that any messages arriving on or after three days from now will receive the autoreply. If you're on vacation this week you set the box to 0and the pop-up menu to This Week . It may take a little thought to get the start date correctly configured.
7	In the last pop-up menu, click Insert Row to start another row.
8	This row will be a lot like the first one, but will define the end of your vacation. In the first pop-up menu, click Delivered, which should now exist in the pop-up without you having to go find it.
9	In the next pop-up, click On or Before, then in the next box, replace the date with the day you're returning from Fiji. See, now you've defined the period of your vacation, so that even if you forget to disable this rule when you get back, GroupWise will stop messing with your mail. You can change these dates any time to re-use the rule. Again, you will need to use the small number box and pop-up menu to configure the end date of your vacation.
10	In the last pop-up menu of the second row, click Insert Row to start another row.
11	In the new row (the third row), click To in the first pop-up menu, leave Contains in the second, then type your e-mail address in the next box. This ensures that only e-mail sent directly to you, unlike e-mail sent to you by way of list servers and whatnot, will be affected by the rule. And now, in the last pop-up menu, click End.
12	Go down to Then Actions Are, and click Add Action, Reply. Make sure Reply to Sender is selected, then click OK.
13	Type your "I'm in Fiji and you're not" message, then click OK .
14	Click Save, and then Close. That's it. You're done.
15	Here's the cool part. This rule works only during the dates specified in the rule itself. Activate it, and then forget about it until you go on vacation again. When you're ready, type new dates in the conditions rows, and in the auto-reply, instead of Fiji, type Rio.