Out of Office Assistant

[Edwards, Martin]

All,

We have an Exchange 5.5 with Outlook 2003 environment with Out of Office
(OOOA) replies set to reply to external organisations. However, a caveat of
this is that whenever a reply is sent out to a 'spammer' it confirms that
the e-mail address is genuine. Without turning off OOOA globally on the
Exchange server, is there anyway to differentiate OOOA replies by sending
only to internal users?

Regards,

 

[Gordon]

All,

We have an Exchange 5.5 with Outlook 2003 environment with Out of Office
(OOOA) replies set to reply to external organisations. However, a caveat of
this is that whenever a reply is sent out to a 'spammer' it confirms that
the e-mail address is genuine. Without turning off OOOA globally on the
Exchange server, is there anyway to differentiate OOOA replies by sending
only to internal users?

The DEFAULT setting of Out of Office Assistant is to only send to internal
users. Set it back to the default.

 

[Edwards, Martin]

Gordon,

I don't think I explained my initial post correctly.... ;-)

We need OOOA replies to be sent to external clients, so we'll be leaving the
global option on the Exchange server set to reply externally. However, my
question was whether or not internal users have the option of 'overriding'
this by using rules or something so that OOOA replies are sent to internal
users only and not external.

Regards,

 

[Gordon]

Gordon,

I don't think I explained my initial post correctly.... ;-)

We need OOOA replies to be sent to external clients, so we'll be leaving the
global option on the Exchange server set to reply externally. However, my
question was whether or not internal users have the option of 'overriding'
this by using rules or something so that OOOA replies are sent to internal
users only and not external.

Regards,

I think the answer to that is "no" - as it's a server setting, I don't think
users can override that. (I may be wrong........)

 

[Edwards, Martin]

Gordon,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. To be honest, I didn't think so either,
but thought i'd post anyway just to check in case anybody had something
similar configured. If anyone has, please feel free to post.

Regards,

 

[Brian Tillman]

However, a caveat of this is that whenever a reply is sent out to a
'spammer' it confirms that the e-mail address is genuine.

Probably not, since SPAMmers rarely use replyable addresses and when they
do, they're usually the hijacked addresses of unsuspecting innocents. The
OOA message probably bounces.