What is your policy on sending Out of Office Messages to senders outside your Organization?   

What is your policy on sending Out of Office Messages to senders outside 
your Organization?


Seems like a while back I read that it is better to turn it off to internet 
senders as that way SPAMers wont get a reply when you are 'out of office'

I have a Sales Manager that really wants his customers to know when his 
sales guys are out of the office.

I know I can add an 'Internet Message Format' for the Domains of our 
customers, but I'm up to about 3400 domain names and counting. Its a heck of 
a list to maintain and import into exchange. Filtering out all the ISP,AOL, 
Hotmail, Yahoo,  etc addresses.

Is there a way to do this for specific internal users as opposed to the 
sender/receiver domain?

Any input would be appreciated

Thank you,

  Scott<-

date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:20:07 -0700   author:   Scott Townsend alias

Re: What is your policy on sending Out of Office Messages to senders outside your Organization?   

i do it, but not with Exchange...I have a policy configured on my Tumbleweed
relay servers to reject "out of office" responses from people who don't want
them to go to the Internet...Some of our users need them to go to the
Internet, based on the nature of their business...a lot of our people only
want them to go out internally...but as you see, it's not easy to configure
just using Exchange...

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Susan Conkey [MVP]



"Scott Townsend" <scooter@nospam.postalias> wrote in message
news:uXCYibIkGHA.456@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> What is your policy on sending Out of Office Messages to senders outside
> your Organization?
>
>
> Seems like a while back I read that it is better to turn it off to
internet
> senders as that way SPAMers wont get a reply when you are 'out of office'
>
> I have a Sales Manager that really wants his customers to know when his
> sales guys are out of the office.
>
> I know I can add an 'Internet Message Format' for the Domains of our
> customers, but I'm up to about 3400 domain names and counting. Its a heck
of
> a list to maintain and import into exchange. Filtering out all the
ISP,AOL,
> Hotmail, Yahoo,  etc addresses.
>
> Is there a way to do this for specific internal users as opposed to the
> sender/receiver domain?
>
> Any input would be appreciated
>
> Thank you,
>
>   Scott<-
>
>

date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:49:34 -0700   author:   Susan