Out of Office Rules

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Guest

Setup at my company is Outlook 2003 on Exchange 2003.

A user set up an out of office rule to move specfied emails from their Inbox
into a PST subfolder to stop their Inbox filling up to its limit, whilst out
of the office for 3 weeks. However on their return when logged back in, the
rule only applied when they opened Outlook for the first time.

Is this due to the rule moving to a PST in a shared folder location rather
than a subfolder in the users profile? I would also assume that the user set
this as a client only rule.

Do PST folder behave differently with rules in out of office?
 
H

Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}

Setting a rule on Outlook to move to a .pst file would of course be a client
side rule and require Outlook to be open on the client. What was required
was a server side rule such as forwarding the email to another Exchange
account ( Delivery options in Exchange tab of the AD User Profile.

Moving the mail to a Subfolder would have no effect. the Exchange mailbox
limits are just that - Mailbox Limits - not - Inbox Folder Limits.

Personally I'd have set a mailbox size that could cope. With Exchange 2003
SP2 you have an 18GB Database natively and up to 75GB via reg setting.
 

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