I would love to rid myself of outlook but you are missing a simple feature: auto reply/vacation; I don't use gmail and I don't have exchange

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I was ready to go all in but when I attempted to setup my vacation reply, I found a flaw in the program.  This is what kept me from purchasing the program.  I use an outlook email for my small business and cannot set this up.  Outlook is different from exchange and let’s face it if I had exchange or liked it then  I would have no need for EM

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I use an outlook email for my small business and cannot set this up.  Outlook is different from exchange
Do you mean Outlook.com? That is an Exchange server so you can use the vacation responder. You just need to setup your account as Exchange rather than IMAP.

I had exchange or liked it then I would have no need for EM
Exchange is a server and eM Client is a client. To connect to a server you need a client. How did you think you would connect to the server without a client?