Out of Office exclusions

[Guest]

I recently recieved several calls from individuals in my organization
regarding this issue.

My issue is the need to exclude certain received mail from sending out the
"Out of Office" response. Is there a way to set up a rule to exclude only
some (not all) people from recieving the "Out of Office" reply. I work for a
very large company and are currently using Outlook 2003. I suspect this is
an exchange server issue and therefore It cannot be changed individually by
the local client.

I have tried setting up several different rules within the Out of Office
area and in the general rules area. No luck so far.

Thank you,

 

[F. H. Muffman]

My issue is the need to exclude certain received mail from sending out the
"Out of Office" response. Is there a way to set up a rule to exclude only
some (not all) people from recieving the "Out of Office" reply. I work
for a
very large company and are currently using Outlook 2003. I suspect this
is
an exchange server issue and therefore It cannot be changed individually
by
the local client.

I have tried setting up several different rules within the Out of Office
area and in the general rules area. No luck so far.

The only option is to *not* use the Out of Office and use regular rules
instead.

First rule would be the exception portion, where you'd have the action of
the rule be 'Stop processing more rules'. Obviously, this would be the rule
where you tell it who *should not* get the reply.

Second rule would be the faux-out of office message. Set up a rule with no
conditions that tells the server to reply with a specific message, and you'd
configure that message to be the message you want sent.

Just make sure the first rule is listed before the second rule.

The obvious downside is that the Outlook out of office feature only fires
once per address, however this rule will fire for every message. IOW, if I
sent you 5 messages and your OOF was turned on, I'd get 1 reply. If I sent
you 5 messages and you used the above solution, I'd get 5 replies.

If the people who users do not want to get oof messages are external to the
Exchange organization, you can look at the exchange system manager where you
can configure whether OOFs are allowed to be sent outside of the Exchange
org (or you used to be able to). microsoft.public.exchange.admin would have
more info on that, just be sure to let them know what version of Exchange
you're running.