Correct. If "Allow OoO Responses" is enabled and "Allow automatic replies/forward" is disabled it will prevent the looping.
js -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Toland Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 4:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OoO Question Sorry to drop in the middle of this thread (I have been reading it from the beginning though). So, is it safe to allow "Allow Out of Office Responses", but still disallow "Allow automatic replies/forward"? Or is the threat still there of the looping without knowing whether your employees have created custom out of office rules? Gregory -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Senter, John M Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OoO question >From our testing, forward rules can cause a loop, if the forward is to external server. If the forward rule is set to send to a local exchange mailbox it will detect the loop and stop. But external connections will continue to loop until find it or the server runs out of space. We had this happen in our environment a couple of years ago. I user had a rule set to forward all e-mail to their hotmail account. When they went over their limit it would send back bounce messages that were then forwarded to hotmail, and so the loop started. This happened over night and out server blew up because the queues have over 300,000 messages waiting to send and each time the message got bigger. So we disable automatic replies to the internet for the entire organization and told the users to use OWA to read mail. Out-of-Office does have the loop stopper by only allowing one reply every 24 hours. If you have automatic updates to the internet disabled then additional rules in the OoO will not go out. js _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
