Out of office agent & spam

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Does anyone know how best to deal with Spam when the Out of office agent is
set?

It seems the Microsoft Exchange Server tries to send one's "out of office"
message even to Spam emails which produce postmaster and other errors.
Thus while one is away on holidays, each incoming Spam not only produces one
time-wasting email but at least 2 or 3 (including all the subsequent errors).
In Lotus Notes one was able to set up a rule preventing the "out of office"
message to be sent to externl/public email addresses. Unfortunately, I can't
seem to set up a similar rule in Outlook 2003.

Would love to have found a work-around for this in time for my holidays in 3
weeks time.
Regards
 
Hans said:
Does anyone know how best to deal with Spam when the Out of office agent is
set?

It seems the Microsoft Exchange Server tries to send one's "out of office"
message even to Spam emails which produce postmaster and other errors.
Thus while one is away on holidays, each incoming Spam not only produces one
time-wasting email but at least 2 or 3 (including all the subsequent errors).
In Lotus Notes one was able to set up a rule preventing the "out of office"
message to be sent to externl/public email addresses. Unfortunately, I can't
seem to set up a similar rule in Outlook 2003.
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That's why the DEFAULT setting of Out of Office is NOT to send outside the
domain!
 
Gordon,

Is this something that can be changed from withing Outlook or a setting
which needs to be done at the Exchange level?
 
Hans said:
Is this something that can be changed from withing Outlook or a
setting which needs to be done at the Exchange level?
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The latter. Your Exchange admins had to have changed it once already in
order for the OOA to be responding to outside addresses, since out of the
box, Exchange won't do that.
 
How is this default setting changed ?
I have users that wish to send Out of Office responses to external mailboxes.

John.
 
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