Out of Office Replies

[James Knott]

Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:06, JoeHill wrote:
> 
> 
>>What kind of idjit joins a mailing list with a business address, then
>>sets an out-of-office reply which spams me ass-out for days?!
> 
> 
> Lots of idiots do it.
> 
> Does anyone know if there's a way to not trigger Outlook's out of office 
> messages?  When sending email to a bunch of people (say 5,000) it's very 
> annoying to have to wade through all of the "hi I got your message" trash 
> along with the legitimate replies.
> 
> There's only two solutions that I can think of:
> 
> - Microsoft gets smart enough to insert a special header into their messages
>   indicating that it is an automated message (I haven't seen such a header),
>   this would make it easy to filter out.
> - In the original mail that I send, I set some header that makes Outlook's
>   autoresponder not respond to the email
> 
> Anyone know if something like the above exists?
> 

I thought that was a function of the mail server.  A few years ago, I 
worked at a company that used Lotus Notes.  The out of office messages 
were sent only to internal addresses.


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