RE: too many "Out of Office AutoReply"
"David Lemson" <dlemson@Exchange.Microsoft.com> Thu, 28 June 2001 23:50 UTC
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From: David Lemson <dlemson@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
Cc: A James Lewis <james@FSCK.CO.UK>, ietf <ietf@ietf.org>
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> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:25 AM > To: Lloyd Wood > Cc: A James Lewis; ietf > Subject: Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" > > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:25:07 BST, Lloyd Wood said: > > > message. Apparently the Microsoft stuff is quite hard to configure > > well. > > To the point that I've *yet* to find somebody who can tell me how to > do it for the offending versions of 'Internet Mail Service'. > > Or is it permanently broken, not configurable, and the organizations > afflicted with it need to be sent a 'Your clue must be ->THIS<- tall > to ride the Internet' notice? > -- > Valdis Kletnieks > Operating Systems Analyst > Virginia Tech > > As of Exchange 5.0 (released in 1996), Exchange did not send auto-reply or out-of-office notifications to messages that contain Precedence: bulk or junk headers. Exchange 2000 (released in 2000) also does not send such messages to messages that contain Precedence: list. Both Exchange 5.5 (released in 1998) and Exchange 2000 ships, out-of-the-box, with the configuration such that out-of-office messages will not travel outside of the "Exchange organization", which is the term for the collection of Exchange servers that are managed together. This means that in order for any of these messages to travel out to the Internet, an administrator has to make a conscious decision to enable them. One major difference between Exchange and vacation is that Exchange has a capability of letting the administrator determine which "Internet e-mail domains" may receive auto-forward, auto-reply, and out-of-office messages. The intent is to allow the administrator to be able to set a policy of "no out-of-office messages to random people on the Internet, but do allow them to go to our certain partners". The main reason is for security - you wouldn't necessarily want your competitors to be able to mail your people and find out you all went to Vegas for the weekend. In both Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000 (we changed the administration GUI in 2000), there is a "default" setting, and a per-domain setting. The default setting applies to any domains that are not otherwise matched. As I stated above, the default setting is not to allow out-of-office, auto-replies, or auto-forwards to the Internet. So here is your step-by-step list of steps for someone to disable out-of-office replies to the Internet (to change back to the default): Exchange 5.5: 1) Open Microsoft Exchange Administrator 2) Navigate to the Internet Mail Service (you will have to do this set of steps for each IMS that you have that sends mail outbound to the Internet) 3) Double-click the IMS to see its properties 4) On the Internet Mail tab, click "Advanced options..." 5) On the Advanced options... Pane, check "Disable Out Of Office Responses to the Internet" Exchange 2000: 1) Open Exchange System Manager 2) Double-click "Global Settings" (in Exchange 2000, this is "global", so you only need to do this in one place) 3) Click "Internet Mail Formats" 4) In the right-pane, on the "Default" item, right-click and select "Properties" 5) On the "Advanced" tab, uncheck "Allow out of office responses" David --- David Lemson Lead Program Manager Exchange Server Microsoft Corporation dlemson@microsoft.com
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- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Valdis.Kletnieks
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Michael H. Warfield
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Keith Moore
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Lloyd Wood
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Valdis.Kletnieks
- RE: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" David Lemson
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Keith Moore
- RE: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" David Lemson
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- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Lloyd Wood
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Gene Gaines
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" A James Lewis
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Keith Moore
- Re: too many "Out of Office AutoReply" Steven M. Bellovin
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