Quoting Tom Meunier below, who provided excellent examples of why not to allow OOA. However, Ed is right. I'd sooner allow OOA than autoreplies to the Internet.
Darcy "I'm not in, but you have hit and now verified a live address. Please put me on your "A" list for resale to other spammers." "I'm the president of the company, and obviously wealthy. Since I've just told you I'm away for two weeks, please go to the county tax assessor's web site and look up the location of my residence. Help yourself." "Hello customer. I'm not in, and you can try contacting someone else in my firm who wants your business. The onus is, however, all on you, as I'm too lazy to delegate my email to somebody else while away. Please don't go visit our competitor, who is far too professional to send you an ascii answering machine message like this." -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 9:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Help with OOA I think your reasoning is backward. The risk of a mail loop from allowing out of office notifications to the Internet is small, nothing like the enormous risk from allowing automatic replies, i.e., rules. In addition, a reply rule replies to every message, not just the first, which more annoys frequent correspondents. I personally don't like allowing either one to the Internet, but out of office is much less riskier from a mail loop standpoint. The other risks, burglary and Spam, apply either way. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant Compaq Computer Corporation Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of RBHATIA Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Help with OOA I have a user who would like me to turn on his 'Out of Office' not only to internal staff but also to other users who send him email from outside the domain. If I do this using the Out of Office emulation using a rule that would automatically send out a custom email notification in response to messages received, would this work for users who send email to that account externally as well ? Would I need to enable 'Allow automatic replies to the Internet' on the Internet Mail service connector ? And if so, could this trigger a loop similar to the Out of Office replies ? (I did set up the rule with an exception such that it would not reply to 'Out of Office' messages) Please advise. Thanks _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
