Out of Office Assistant to the Internet

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Where I worked before, if we were out of the office, we would turn on
Outlook's "Out of office assistant" and would have the following text
included in the message:

"Following line prevents this notice from leaving the xxx network.
hspx-nix-xlkw-oiwuekg-swx-qj-vli-mrvvepix"

The idea being that the "out of office reply" only went internally and would
not be sent outside of the company.

I have tried this a few times here but it appears that it is not working;
maybe I need to use a different code.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
 
The Out of Office Assistant only works if you connect to an Exchange server.
Whether or not the responses are allowed to go to the internet are set at the
Exchange level. You would have to speak to your Exchange Admin.
They may advise you to set up a rule instead to respond to internal users
rather than use Out of Office if they've allowed those to go to the internet.
 
SilverICE said:
Where I worked before, if we were out of the office, we would turn on
Outlook's "Out of office assistant" and would have the following text
included in the message:

"Following line prevents this notice from leaving the xxx network.
hspx-nix-xlkw-oiwuekg-swx-qj-vli-mrvvepix"

The idea being that the "out of office reply" only went internally
and would not be sent outside of the company.

I have tried this a few times here but it appears that it is not
working; maybe I need to use a different code.
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As far as I know, adding a line such as you describe has nothing to do with
it. It's conceivable to me that your Exchange admins added some kind of
filter that would key off of a string like that, but I've not heard of it.

That said, it is the default behavior of Exchange to not allow OOA messages
to external addresses. Your Exchange admins can change that behavior,
however, and allow them. Perhaps that's what they've done.
 
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