It is quite easily accomplished On Exchange 5.5. There is a setting on the
Internet Mail Connector advanced tab with a check box, labeled "Do not send
out of office replies to the internet" There is another labeled "Do not send
automatic replies to the internet". Microsoft has provided the tools and
documentation. This would suggest a lack of knowledge on the administrators
part, assuming the messages were generated from Exchange Server. I would say
the Jack Dice message is most definately not exchange though, it is not the
correct format. However several of the other "Out of Office" replies do
appear to fit the Exchange format. Sorry for the off topic post, but I am
tired of listening to unfounded criticism of Microsoft products. The
discussion should always be about security which is directly related,
although not exclusively, to an administrators Knowledg Base and familiarity
with a product.
Ken Claussen MCSE CCNA CCA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Horsfall
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:24 AM
To: Firewalls List
Subject: RE: Auto-responders
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Noonan, Wesley wrote:
> up as the cost of doing business. The days of text mail with no out of
> office notification is definitely over. If auto responses is the biggest
of
> my worries... well, it's been a good day. :)
Funny; I can do it quite easily with my text-based Unix mailer. I don't
have to annoy anyone who posted to a mailing list, or worse still, the
*entire* list. I mean, it's of no consequence to me if Jack Dickhead is
out for lunch when I post to a mailing list, so why the heck should I be
notified? If anyone ought to receive the silly-ack, it's the list owner.
Or is M$ particularly broken in that respect?
-- Dave
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