Out of Office exception

[Andrew Eagles]

I need to create an exception to my out of office setup in Outlook 2000 SP3,
to stop out of office messages being sent to all incoming emails with 'Spam:'
in the subject. My spam filter marks junk emails with 'Spam:' in the
subject, and I want to stop Outlook sending an out of office reply to just
these junk emails. I have checked all the obvious options in Outlook 2000
SP3 but cannot find the answer, at the moment I end with with a truckload of
undeliverable messages from the fake reply email addresses specified in the
junk emails. Please help! Thanks. Andy Eagles

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You can't. The OOF works at server level and your junk e-mail filter at
client level. This means that the OOF is always first. Contact your mail
admin about possibilities for junk e-mail filtering at server level.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I need to create an exception to my out of office setup in Outlook 2000 SP3,
to stop out of office messages being sent to all incoming emails with
'Spam:'
in the subject. My spam filter marks junk emails with 'Spam:' in the
subject, and I want to stop Outlook sending an out of office reply to just
these junk emails. I have checked all the obvious options in Outlook 2000
SP3 but cannot find the answer, at the moment I end with with a truckload of
undeliverable messages from the fake reply email addresses specified in the
junk emails. Please help! Thanks. Andy Eagles

 

[Andrew Eagles]

Thanks Robert. We have a spam filter working on the mail gateway which picks
up all incoming spam and puts 'Spam:' in front of the message subject. This
is before the incoming mail hits the mail server.

I found a workaround, adding a new rule on my mailbox to stop processing all
other rules on all emails marked as 'Spam:'. So any email not picked up as
spam then got my out-of-office autoreply as normal, but any email marked as
spam by the mail gateway didn't get the out-of-office autoreply. When I got
back in the office, I turned off the new rule and ran the old spam rule to
clear all spam out of my inbox.

I can't see this solution working for other users, even though it did
prevent getting loads of delivery failure notices. I can stop out-of-office
autoreplies going to spam emails, but I also need to keep filtering the spam
emails to stop them ending up in the inbox. I looked at the out-of-office
options and there is nothing to create and exception rule.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot. Andy Eagles