I’m a Mac girl living in a Windows world… and while I am blessed to be able to use a Mac at work, our organization of 3000+ employees is a Windows based network š and we use Outlook for e-mail. It doesn’t matter if I’m using Outlook in Yosemite or in Windows 7 via Parallels – I feel like the proverbial one legged cat trying to bury poop on a frozen pond when I’m in Outlook. Just like theĀ horrible interfaces of the old flip phones, I can never remember the sequence of things to click on to get to my vacation message, so I either set it wrong, or I never remember to unset it when I’m back from vacay… and here’s my solution: Responder for Exchange!
It has a very intuitive interface, it’s beautiful to look at, and you can set up your vacation message in moments. Before you plunk down the $1.99 for the app, ask your IT team if they’re Exchange 2010 or 2007 with EWS enabled. You’ll need that for the app to run right.
The same developer makes a responder app for Kerio Connect if your company is using that in lieu of Microsoft Exchange.
I love, love, loveĀ this app! I never touch Outlook when I’m going on vacation or just out of the office for the afternoon… I go to this app every time.
I rarely buy apps – I usually wait for apps to go on sale for free during a promo – but once in a while, there is one that works so well, I not only buy it, I recommend it to others. This is one of those apps. If you have to use Outlook and you hate messing with your vacation message – this is the iPhone app for you!
