outlook express email rules problem

[exxos]

I'm trying to setup a mail rule in outlook, where if a email's body has some keywords, it first of all forwards it to someone else, which works fine, then it should send a reply email to the person who actually sent it, which i can setup, however the "reply with message" option lets me select a email to reply with , kinda like a auto responder, but it sends that email as a attachment, so the email which the sender actually gets is basically blank with a file attachment of the email i want to actually send, as a email, not a attachment.

I can't setup a auto responder as I only need a reply to go out automatically with some keywords, I've looked on my server control panel and nothing in there other than normal auto responders and forwarders, so no luck there either.

Wondering if anyone knows a way of doing this ? or if there is any addon's for outlook to give it better functions than the cr*ppy built in ones ?

[Rik]

I can't think of a way offhand, but I'll move this over to a tech section where it should get more attention.

[exxos]

I can't think of a way offhand, but I'll move this over to a tech section where it should get more attention.

okies!  Only thing i can really think of setting up another email account and using the auto responders just on that one email, a bit messy i guess but only way i can think of doing it.

[Rik]

I've done similar things for more or less the same reason.

[Den]

In the subject you refer to Outlook Express but in the body of text you refer to Outlook, which is it?

[Simon]

If it's Outlook, is the option to forward messages as text, rather than as attachments, selected?  Not sure if it would make any difference in this scenario, but you never know.

[exxos]

its outlook express 6.. There is no option I can see other than "include email in reply" or something like that, which just opens up a box to load in a .eml , no other options there   ill setup a new email account, and do it that way 

[Den]

I did not think that anyone still used Outlook Express 6

[Simon]

I've still got OE6, but I don't use it.