Re: Out of office reply

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From: BB (bo.boivie._DELETE__at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:30:31 +0200

A big disadvantage with server side out of office rules, is that SPAM mail
will be affected too.

What happens is this:

You receive a SPAM mail with a faked sender address
The out of office reply is sent to the faked and often non-existing address
The server receiving your out of office reply responds that the address does
not exist.
Your server sends another out of office reply to that server

The effect is that for almost every spam you will also get a "Message could
not be delivered mail" in your mailbox when you get back from you holiday.

If you follow the recommendation in the article below and use your client
instead you could set up the out of office rule to ignore any junk
classified mail, or even just handling mails from certain domains, or only
senders in a certain categories (business for instance).

Another great disadvantage with sending out of office replies to spammers is
that you confirm the validity of your e-mail address (in the case the reply
address in the spam mail is valid of course), which eventually will lead to
your getting even more spam than before.

-Bo

On 04-07-16 01.33, in article 2d29d01c46ac4$1154c940$a601280a@phx.gbl,
"fishboy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Excellent, got it working, thank you so much for your time Mickey!
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> If you're using an Exchange Server, you need to set up the Out of Office
>> reply using Outlook or Outlook Web Access.
>>
>> Otherwise, see this FAQ article:
>> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule003.html>
>>
>> Make sure that you read the note at the bottom. If you don't want to or
>> cannot keep your computer on and internet connection active while you're
>> away, you should investigate to see if there is a server-level auto reply
>> function that you can use.
>>
>> On 7/15/04 6:11 PM, in article
> 2d28401c46ac1$18d12a90$a601280a@phx.gbl,
>> "fishboy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> how do you do this in Entourage?
>>
>> --
>> Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
>> PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/>
>> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
>>
>> .
>>

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