Disabling auto-replies to the Internet on the IMS prevents this. -----Original Message----- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:39 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Disabling Ability to Create Rules in Outlook...
Ok...I'm trying to prevent unforseen mail loops from bringing down one or more servers in our site. We have 45,000 employees worldwide for our Corporate entity. Some job sites within the company have their own networks and their own domain names, rather than being tied into the Corporate network...these are usually government subcontractor sites. In order to allow employees to be able to use one e-mail address, regardless of what job site they are at, the parent company uses Custom Recipients. If I sent an e-mail to myself at company.com, the system would automatically see I didn't have a mailbox, but rather a CR, rewrite the headers and forward it on to job-site.com. Works just like it was supposed to. However, we get Corporate employees coming temporarily to our job site quite regularly. They always want a mailbox here as well, since using the 5.5 OWA "inconveniences" them so badly...bah! These employees are from the Corporate location just down the street, so they flit back and forth from one location to another. What I'm afraid of, is that these Corporate employees will decide that they want to see all the e-mail they get here, when they go to their other office. Then forgetting that they set up a rule to forward everything to the Corporate mailbox, they set another rule on their Corporate mailbox to forward everything from there to here...just so they can "stay in the loop" on Corporate issues. This would create a big, fat, hairy, mail loop, in a matter of hours. On the Delivery Restrictions tab of the IMS, I could set it to Deny any e-mail from the account I create here. However, they will still need to be able to send to the Internet, just not via a rule that does it automatically. I'm trying to be customer-oriented on this matter, without allowing these few people the possibility of bringing down the e-mail servers for 600 employees...it only takes one. To that end, is there a registry hack for disabling the ability to create a rule in any version of Outlook? We are using Outlook98 and 2000 here. I could also use the CleanSweep tool, but that would be a manual process to keep deleting rules if they are created. I don't want them to have the ability to create the rules at all. I found this Q article which is already in place, but this appears to only apply when the OOA is turned on, not to any rule: XCLN: Unable to Auto Forward Messages to SMTP Address with the Out of Office Assistant http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216397&Product=out Thanks folks...any ideas welcome. Jim _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
