Ru$$Rip

If I set my Outlook out of office assistant to 'on' WHO can see this?? Obviously users in the GAL can but can ALL external email clients also see it - Lotus notes/ hotmail etc.???

Cheers

ozzy

What do you mean by 'see this'?

Do you mean, if someone sends you an e-mail who will it respond too with the Out of Office reply?

Dy default, all internal Exchange users (this can be your whole Corporate e-mail if in a single Exchange site).

IIRC, you need to enable responses on individual Exchange connectors e.g. I know it needs to be enabled on the Internet Mail Connector begore any SMTP mailers get the reply.

Stefan

Miles

IIRC, OOO replies to the internet are switched off by default. It's only other mailboxes in the same messaging environment that will receive the OOO reply. From personal experience, in an environment with Notes or MS Mail (spit) connectors, then those other mailboxes will also receive the OOO reply. Essentially anything internal will, anything external won't.

Enabling OOO replies to the internet is generally recommended to be a BAD idea. Fine if you fancy mopping up after mail routing loops and crashed servers. Then there are the security aspects, and finally it's great way to inform spammers that your email address is live.