From: Lee Jones Lee on
I came up with a work-around the same day but did not post back to this
forum. Here's my attempt to make life easier for everybody.

See my blog post titled "Fix for 'Rules in Error' - 'Cannot Reply to
Message' for Outlook 2007 Out-Of-Office rule" at
http://www.leeandcathy.com/2009/07/fix-for-rules-in-error-cannot-reply-to.html