Out of Office Replies

[Wil McGilvery]

That is only good if the person is using a mail server and onlt if the server is configured properly.

The same tool that sends those same annoying messages can be configured to omit certain addresses such as user groups. That way individual recipients know that you are skipping town, but the rest of us are happy in our ignorance.

It is all in the hands of the user. 

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Wil McGilvery
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:49 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org

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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