This is just one possible solution.
Here's the scenario: A user lets you know that when they Enable the Out of Office Agent, no one gets notified of their absence. You look at the design of their database, and the agent is enabled. You refresh/replace the design. No luck. So, because you are a good citizen of the Domino Community, you read two articles (Part 1 and Part 2) that Julie spent time to create. The one thing that you take away from those articles, this time, is a little scheduled mail agent that you used for testing purposes in the users' mail file:
provided by Julian Robichaux at nsftools.com.
Not even that agent ran. Now what?
Let's look at the Properties of the users' mail file:
Notice the highlighted area. If the user has selected this option, no background agents will run. This includes the Out of Office Agent and your little mail test agent. Deselect the option, disable/enable the agents, and they will run. If this is the culprit. :-)
Links:
Lotus Notes Out of Office Agent, revisited: Part 1 (R6, R7)
Lotus Notes Out of Office Agent, revisited: Part 2 (R6, R7)
Notes/Domino Out of Office agent does not run - TechNote #1109712
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