Depends whether you want the burglars to know your CEO is on holidays in the Bahamas for the next two weeks.
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Gregory Toland >Sent: 07 April 2005 22:55 >To: Exchange Discussions >Subject: RE: OoO Question > >Sorry to drop in the middle of this thread (I have been >reading it from the >beginning though). So, is it safe to allow "Allow Out of >Office Responses", >but still disallow "Allow automatic replies/forward"? Or is the threat >still there of the looping without knowing whether your employees have >created custom out of office rules? > >Gregory > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Senter, >John M >Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:31 PM >To: Exchange Discussions >Subject: RE: OoO question > >>From our testing, forward rules can cause a loop, if the forward is to >external server. If the forward rule is set to send to a >local exchange >mailbox it will detect the loop and stop. But external >connections will >continue to loop until find it or the server runs out of space. > >We had this happen in our environment a couple of years ago. >I user had a >rule set to forward all e-mail to their hotmail account. When >they went >over their limit it would send back bounce messages that were >then forwarded >to hotmail, and so the loop started. This happened over night and out >server blew up because the queues have over 300,000 messages >waiting to send >and each time the message got bigger. So we disable automatic >replies to >the internet for the entire organization and told the users to >use OWA to >read mail. > >Out-of-Office does have the loop stopper by only allowing one >reply every 24 >hours. If you have automatic updates to the internet disabled then >additional rules in the OoO will not go out. > >js > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm >Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange >To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >[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/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [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.
