Only one OOOA reply to Sender

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I have read another thread posted that OOOA only replies once to a sender
during the duration that the Assistant is on.

So if the user is out of the office for say a month. A sender during that
time will only get the message once, is this correct?

And if so can that be changed? I have many users that are out of the office
from 2 plus weeks.

If this is not changable it appears to me that is a poor design feature. The
sender would have to remember how long the person is out. Right now I have a
user who will be out of the office for 3 months. And it is important the
clients recieve notification.

Thanks in advance
 
Yes and no respectively. You might consider it a poor design feature, but
let me give you a reason why it is a good feature. Mail loops. User A and
User B both turn it on. While it is on User A sends a message to B. B
sends a message to A and A replies and so on and so forth. Before you know
it, the server comes down to protect itself because it ran out of drive
space on the logging drive or where the information store sits.
 
Thanks and I do realize the problems that can be created with the mail server
as I take care of them. The chances of me turning on my OOOA and then
emailing someone with theirs on is rather slim as I see it. Being everytime
you open outlook you are reminded that the feature is on.

I was not being rude by stating that I felt it was a poor design. But let me
give you a reason why it is a poor design. If I am going to be out of the
office for an extended period of time should I really exspect a sender to be
able to remember the dates I will be out. Maybe in a perfect world but that
does not happen. Plus the fact that if my users are aware that the office
assistant only sends one time to the sender. They would choose not to use it.
And before you get a chance to be defensive think about this. I send you an
email today and recieve notification that you will be out of the office for
30 days. So today I know why your not responding to me. Two weeks from now I
send you an important email that I need response to, I have forgotten that
you are out of the office. I send to you and I do not recieve the
notification - I know that the last time I sent you I was notified. Now I am
under the impression that you are in the office.

So regardless it does have a draw back to using it.
 
dcournoyer said:
Thanks and I do realize the problems that can be created with the
mail server as I take care of them. The chances of me turning on my
OOOA and then emailing someone with theirs on is rather slim as I see
it.

It isn't just a matter of your OOF meeting someone else's. Your OOF could
just as easily reply to an autoreply rule or nondelivery report or somesuch.
Autoreply can bring servers to their knees.
Being everytime you open outlook you are reminded that the
feature is on.

I was not being rude by stating that I felt it was a poor design. But
let me give you a reason why it is a poor design. If I am going to be
out of the office for an extended period of time should I really
exspect a sender to be able to remember the dates I will be out.
Maybe in a perfect world but that does not happen. Plus the fact that
if my users are aware that the office assistant only sends one time
to the sender. They would choose not to use it. And before you get a
chance to be defensive think about this. I send you an email today
and recieve notification that you will be out of the office for 30
days. So today I know why your not responding to me. Two weeks from
now I send you an important email that I need response to, I have
forgotten that you are out of the office. I send to you and I do not
recieve the notification - I know that the last time I sent you I was
notified. Now I am under the impression that you are in the office.

So regardless it does have a draw back to using it.

Yes, but this is an issue of the recipient not remembering something they
were told. There isn't really a technical solution to that. It would be nice
if Out of Office replied using a null address (that nobody could reply to),
but it doesn't.
 
dcournoyer said:
I was not being rude by stating that I felt it was a poor design. But
let me give you a reason why it is a poor design. If I am going to be
out of the office for an extended period of time should I really
exspect a sender to be able to remember the dates I will be out.

Of course, if you included that information in the OOA message and the
person is not a moron.
 
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