Out of Office Replies

[James Knott]

Mike Kallies wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> ...
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> I'm subscribed to a Lotus Notes mailing list.  There are always about 
> 5-10 "So-and-so is out of the office... " messages posted every month.
> 
> Out of office should _never_ be used outside of the company.
> 
> There was a spot on CBC radio a little while back which illustrated the 
> security problem with these out-of-office messages:  Criminals have been 
> using these to know the names of people who are away on vacation, they 
> then look up their addresses in the phonebook and help themselves to the 
> contents of their homes.

As someone else mentioned, it's a configuration issue.  Notes and other 
mail servers give you the tools.  It's up to the admin to use those 
tools properly.  I had also heard of that criminal threat.


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