Out of Office Assistant should not send auto-replies to SPAMmers

[Guest]

I'd like to file an Enhancement Request for Microsoft Office. i'm currently
running outlook 2003 SP1.

My request is that the Out of Office Assistant should not send auto-replies
to messages marked as SPAM. It either
(a) lets SPAMmers know that I really do exist, or
(b) gives me "Message Undeliverable" messages all week when I return to
the office.

Either way, its quite annoying. The more (a) happens, the more SPAM I will
get, which gives me more (a) and (b). Seems like a positive feedback loop
that will eventually cause my entire Inbox to explode and rain a million
drops of SPAM onto my cubicle. I'm really not prepared for that.

Thanks for listening.
Brendan


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[Brian Tillman]

i_do_not_like_green_eggs_and_SPAM

I'd like to file an Enhancement Request for Microsoft Office. i'm
currently running outlook 2003 SP1.

My request is that the Out of Office Assistant should not send
auto-replies to messages marked as SPAM.

There are two issues with your suggestion. The first is that, since you you
have the OOA, you're using Exchange. Exchange's default configuration is to
never send OOA messages to external addresses, so your Exchange admin must
have changed that. Complain to him or her, since s/he caused the problem.

Second, since Outlook doesn't ever mark messages as SPAM, you must be
running some third party scanner that marks the message before it hits your
Inbox. Why not set up a rule
in the OOA that deleted any marked messages?

If Outlook's Junk E-mail filter classifies a message as junk, I don't
believe the OOA acts upon it, so there's nothing you need to do abut that.

(a) lets SPAMmers know that I really do exist, or

Unlikely, since SPAMmers so rarely use replyable addresses.

(b) gives me "Message Undeliverable" messages all week when I
return to the office.

Set up a rule to delete NDRs.

 

[Guest]

....... since Outlook doesn't ever mark messages as SPAM, you must be
running some third party scanner that marks the message before it hits your
Inbox. Why not set up a rule in the OOA that deleted any marked messages?
..........
Brian Tillman

I want to get OOA *not* to reply to messages whose subject has been
modified by a 3rd-party spam-detector with the prefix [SPAM] but cannot
understand how to set this rule up. So, Mr. Tillman, how do you do it?