They're bad, but not because of looping. I've really gotten to hate them.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant hp Services Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chris Scharff Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 9:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OOF Messages to the Internet I for one think that if most of the Exchange community thinks OOF to the internet is a prima facie bad or risky thing, they're wrong. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Helfer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:11 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: OOF Messages to the Internet > > > It wasn't the gun that killed him. It was the bullets! > > I think the point is that if that under controlled environments, you > can safely say that OOF alone won't be the first cause of a mail loop. > As long as you are sure that no one has any other weird rules. > > However, since my servers are connected to the internet and have to > interact with many strange and alien mail systems which aren't under > my control and can't be counted on to do the right thing, it's enough > for me to take the advice of most of the rest of the Exchange > community and not allow > OOF to the Internet. > > > Jim H > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Durkee, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:37 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: OOF Messages to the Internet > > > Yes, but that was the forwarding rule that looped, not the OOA. Even > though it was probably set up in the same dialog box as the OOA, it's > still two different mechanisms. > > -Peter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:22 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: OOF Messages to the Internet > > > 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. 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