I have, in fact, seen this very thing just recently. The situation was this: an executive had setup an OOF message with a rule that forwarded all of their email to their home email address. Well, sure enough their home email reached it's limit and started to play ping pong with their office email. By the time we caught it (this was on a weekend) their office email had over 20,000 "postmaster" and "Message Delivery failure" messages in it. I immediately killed the forwarding rule and notified the Help Desk in case the executive called in.
While this may not be exactly what you enviioned it is nonetheless an example of what can happen iun such circumstances. Cheers. Nate Couch EDS Messaging > ---------- > From: Ben Winzenz > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2002 09:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: OOF Messages to the Internet > > Prove it. Since OOF fires only once "per sender", how does it cause or be > a > part of a loop? I'm just curious. If it does in fact cause a loop, I > would > like to know how it does. Not trying to be sarcastic here, or anything > else, but can you describe the situation where you saw this happen? > > Ben Winzenz > Network/Systems Administrator > Peregrine Systems > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Geoffrey Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:38 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: OOF Messages to the Internet > > > OOF can, in fact, cause a ping-pong effect out to the Internet. Been > there, > seen it, turned it off. Yes, there could have been a rule that affected > it > also, but it still is a no-no at my Company. > > Geoff....... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 4:09 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: OOF Messages to the Internet > > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, at 12:40pm, Ben Winzenz wrote: > > Sorry, but that is NOT Out of Office. That is a rule that was set up. > > Out of Office fires only ONCE per sender. Period. Allowing > > autoforwarding to the internet will cause mail loops, but not Out of > > office to the internet. > > Er, oh yeah. *sheepish grin* I tend to lump them together in my > head... > > Sorry 'bout that. > > -- > Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do > | not | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, > | entity or | organization. All information is provided without > | warranty of any kind. | > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] > > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
