Re: Out of Office Auto Reply

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"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message news:elESW2h4HHA.1208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Use a rule and a template instead. The other item that Vanguard did not mention is the potential for a mail loop that will bring your exchange server to its knees. I have seen it happen and it is not pretty.


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I thought that was fixed by setting the value for the Return-Path header to null. That way, when the receiving mail host got that e-mail, it knows that it is not supposed to send back an NDR (non-delivery report) or any other bounce-type e-mail. I thought that was taken care of some 15, or more, years ago when auto-responders were then continuously bouncing between each other, filling up mailboxes with thousands of mails, and sucking up bandwidth on the mail hosts.


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