Out of office assistant should not cause any mail loops, since it will only fire up once per unique email address.
Andrew, MCSE (NT & W2K) + CCNA -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:44 PM Posted To: DiscussionGroup Conversation: OOF replies to the Internet Subject: RE: OOF replies to the Internet create a distribution list and a public folder set the email address for the public folder to [EMAIL PROTECTED] add the public folder as a member of the distribution list. go to the permissions tab of the public folder properties in Outlook. Give the folder default permissions > contributor (Exchange 2000 set anonymous to contributor) Go to the properties of the public folder in outlook and click on stuff until you find the folder assistant. Add rule. In the to: field, select the distribution list created in the beginning. Select reply with template and type in the reply text and subject > save and close. click ok.. Blah, blah. Be sure to note in the body of the reply that "This is an autoresponse. Please do not respond to this message." click add rule, select delete, say ok to "this rule will fire for all incoming messages..." (make sure that the reply rule is noted before the delete rule.) -----Original Message----- From: Whitlock, Teresa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:15 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OOF replies to the Internet What is *correctly*? I'm getting a request from someone for an auto-reply and I'd like to know if it's possible to do without a problem. -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:25 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OOF replies to the Internet Automatic replies that are setup *correctly* will NOT cause mail loops... Allowing OOFS to the internet: <Tom Meunier> "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 bonus 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." </Tom Meunier> -----Original Message----- From: Sargent, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:05 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: OOF replies to the Internet Though we'd never open automatic replies to the Internet, in reading some of the discussions in the archives it appears some don't see a problem with allowing OOFs to the Internet. How does this work to avoid mail loops? ...does it just send one reply per sender, in the same way it works internally? Also, I'm assuming that the "auto-reply to the Internet issue" remains the same for Exchange 2000 as in 5.5 = BAD. True? Thanks! Rob Sargent _________________________________________________________________ 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
