Suppose for a moment that someone with ill intent is attempting to contact you. You are out of the office for several days. Your OOO response has let them know of your absence. You have now afforded this person opportunity to do harm to property or other, by knowing that you are likely not there to prevent it.
Not really a risk worth taking, is it? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andersson Mikael (SIX)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:20 AM Subject: RE: Ouf Of Office > What kind of security risk from a human engineering standpoint do you mean? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: den 21 mars 2002 20:42 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Ouf Of Office > > > It does, but that doesn't mean it couldn't induce a mail loop. Imagine a > help desk ticketing system which uses a unique e-mail address for every > e-mail message received and autoreplies to the sender. > > More importantly is a security risk from a human engineering standpoint. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andersson Mikael (SIX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:24 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Ouf Of Office > > > > > > Does Out Of Office responses to the internet really loop? > > > > I believed that OOF only replied once to every mailaddress!? > > Anyone who knows for sure? > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
