I think OoO messages are ridiculous and I blame Microsoft. It’s so easy to setup an Autoreply for holidays and when you are out of the office.

But these emails are quite frankly stupid. All they do is send an email back, no matter what, that says something retarded like:

“I’m on holiday in the Bahamas. Will be back on 11 July. Please contact Charlie for anything urgent”.

It’s retarded because now I have to email someone else again. Why couldn’t that email have been forwarded automatically to Charlie. Since this is a business, and you want to keep customers/new clients, why not keep this as simple as possible? This a very easy process and simply adds a forward rule to new mail.

To be honest, you can’t even do this with Apple Mail. I’m sure an Applescript could work fine though.