Out-of-Office impact on Safe Senders list

[Owen Williams]

Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange Mode. Junk mail filter set to HIGH.
Safe Senders set to "Automatically add people I e-mail to the Safe
Senders list." Due to customer requirement, Exchange 2003 is set to
respond to Internet senders with out-of-office responses.

QUESTION: When Out-of-Office is enabled, will the addresses of all
messages received, possibly including junk senders, be added to the Safe
Senders list?

Thank you,

-- Owen Williams

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't think so, but it should be easy enough for you to test. The "Add senders" feature is a client feature, but the out-of-office messages are sent not by the client, but by the server.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Owen Williams]

Sue:

Thanks. I ran the test and you are correct: Out-of-Office recipients
are NOT added to safe senders when "Add Senders" is enabled.

-- Owen