How To Setup a GroupWise Vacation Rule

Set Up Rule:

1. Click Tools, Rules, New. 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.
4. Click Define Conditions. Here's the tricky part.  This is where the meat of the rule lives.
   (Optional: If you want to define dates, use #5 - #10 otherwise, go to #11.)
5. In the first pull-down menu, click All Fields, then find and click Delivered.
6. (Optional) In the next pull-down menu, select On or After Date, then in the next box, replace the date that appears (probably today's date, which is GroupWise trying to be helpful) with the date you're leaving for Fiji.
7. In the last pull-down menu, click And 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 pull-down menu, click Delivered, which should now exist in the pull-down without you're having to go find it.
9. (Optional) In the next pull-down, click On or Before Date, 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.
10. In the last pull-down menu of the second row, click And to start yet another row.
    (End optional)
11. In the first pull-down menu, click To 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 what not, will be affected by the rule.  And now, in the last pull-down menu, once again, click And to start one last row.
12. In the first pull-down menu, click From, click Does Not Contain in the second menu, and in the third box, again, type your e-mail address.  This ensures that you won't get caught in some insane loop with yourself. Leave End in the last pull-down menu of this last row.
13. Go down to Then Actions Are, and click Add Action, Reply.  Make sure Reply to Sender is selected, then click OK.
14. Type your "I'm in Fiji " message, then click OK.
15. Click Save, then Close.  That's it, you're done.

If you do steps 6 & 9, this rule works only during the dates specified in the rule itself.  Activate it, 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.

Do steps 11 & 12 for each GroupWise e-mail address.  For example:
John Doe, JDoe@gsu.edu and acsjd@langate.gsu.edu