Here's where it will loop: Parent is taking their child to DisneyWorld for a week. Parent sends you an e-mail to inform you that child will be blissfully enjoying the house of the mouse and if any homework assignments could be held for them until their return. Your autoresponder replies to the parent and says "Thank you for your e-mail....blah blah."
The parent has configured Outlook using the Rules Wizard, because they don't use an Exchange Server, to automatically reply to every message received with a response that says "Thanks for e-mailing us! We're in Orlando spending $6 for a small popcorn while our kid gets their picture taken with Goofy." Your system receives that message and, true to form, autoreplies with "Thank you for your e-mail....blah blah." And then their autoresponder replies with "Thank you for e-mailing us! We're in Orlando..." Rinse. Repeat. Then it's just a question of whose mail store will crash first - yours or theirs. At this point you're hoping they're using Outlook 2000 so that their PST file will crash somewhere around 2GB and stop this insipid game of e-mail tennis. Things will get much more interesting if they have a new Outlook 2003 Unicode PST file... Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer ______________________________________________ Roland Schorr & Tower 737 Bishop St. Suite 1655 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Mobile: 808-782-6306 Fax: 808-533-3677 www.rolandschorr.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pascoe, Rick Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 15:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Having server send reply to email sent to distribution list Mmmmm, mail loops good, but I think you misunderstood. If a parent from outside school sends an email to this distribution group that has 5 of my administrative staff in it, the administrative staff receive the email that the parent sent and the server (no open client required) automatically sends a reply to the parent saying "Thank you for your email.....blah blah". Why would that loop? This is something MS explains how to do, it just doesn't work. Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:16 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Having server send reply to email sent to distribution list Awww, you're no fun. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!(tm) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Missy Koslosky Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:51 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Having server send reply to email sent to distribution list I can promise that there is no gold star associated with that accomplishment. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Schorr Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Having server send reply to email sent to distribution list Maybe they've always wanted to see an Information Store hit the store limit and crash? Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer ______________________________________________ Roland Schorr & Tower 737 Bishop St. Suite 1655 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Mobile: 808-782-6306 Fax: 808-533-3677 www.rolandschorr.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Missy Koslosky Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 13:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Having server send reply to email sent to distribution list OMG. This is asking for a mail loop. Why on earth would they want to do this? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pascoe, Rick Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:12 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Having server send reply to email sent to distribution list Ex2k3, Outlook 2003 latest patches. We're trying to set up a distribution list that each time an email is received by that list, the server sends an automatic response ("Thank you") to the original sender. 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