Vacation email - internal and external

[Mike]

Can one set up vacation email to let those in the company know you're
out for a 1 week vacationand to refer to a co-workers, but not for
external emails (discussion groups, news signup, etc)?
Thanks
Mike

 

[Gordon]

Can one set up vacation email to let those in the company know you're
out for a 1 week vacationand to refer to a co-workers, but not for
external emails (discussion groups, news signup, etc)?
Thanks
Mike

Answered in 24hoursupport.helpdesk.

Please do not make multiple posts: if you must post a message to more than
one Newsgroup, use cross-posting: see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

Can one set up vacation email to let those in the company know
you're
out for a 1 week vacationand to refer to a co-workers, but not for
external emails (discussion groups, news signup, etc)?

That should be the normal configuration within Exchange. When using
Exchange as the e-mail server, and, I believe, with the default setup,
the OOO (Out Of Office) replies should only be sent to Exchange
subscribers (i.e., employees within the same Exchange organization).
A company does not want to look stupid in not being able to cover for
employee absences or termination in not having a suitable alternate
assigned to accept those e-mails. A company also doesn't want to help
spambots determine which are valid e-mail addresses.

Talk to whomever is the Exchange admin at your company. They'll know
if the auto-responder in Exchange is configured to deliver those
auto-replies to only other Exchange subscribers or if they are allowed
for externally received e-mails.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

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[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

It was also posted in an Outlook *Express* newsgroup...so, is it Outlook or
OE? ;-)

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[Mike]

So Tom and Diane, are you gonna help or spend more time trying to
figure out if there are cross-postings?

to help or not to help, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism

Mike

 

[Gordon]

So Tom and Diane, are you gonna help or spend more time trying to
figure out if there are cross-postings?

to help or not to help, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism

Mike

look at the reply I posted in 24hoursupport.helpdesk, which was the starter
for the thing about crossposting instead of multiposting....

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

So, is the OP going to tell us if it's OE or Outlook? Makes a difference as
to the answer.

If Outllook, is an exchange server involved? Makes a difference as to the
answer.

Rather than playing net nanny, are *you* going to help or not help?


: So Tom and Diane, are you gonna help or spend more time trying to
: figure out if there are cross-postings?
:
: to help or not to help, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism
:
: Mike

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I would have, had Vanguard not answered the question already -

"That should be the normal configuration within Exchange. When using
Exchange as the e-mail server, and, I believe, with the default setup,
the OOO (Out Of Office) replies should only be sent to Exchange
subscribers (i.e., employees within the same Exchange organization).
A company does not want to look stupid in not being able to cover for
employee absences or termination in not having a suitable alternate
assigned to accept those e-mails. A company also doesn't want to help
spambots determine which are valid e-mail addresses.

Talk to whomever is the Exchange admin at your company. They'll know
if the auto-responder in Exchange is configured to deliver those
auto-replies to only other Exchange subscribers or if they are allowed
for externally received e-mails. "





** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version
when requesting assistance **

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

But where is that reply? This message was posted to
microsoft.public.outlook.general & microsoft.public.outlook newsgroups - not
your helpdesk site.




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[Gordon]

But where is that reply? This message was posted to
microsoft.public.outlook.general & microsoft.public.outlook newsgroups -
not your helpdesk site.

The OP posted the same query to a non-MS News group called
24hoursupport.helpdesk. Most News servers carry it....

 

[Sidney Friedman]

What if you are using POP mail and not Exchange? How would you then send an
"unavailable" response then?

 

[Gordon]

What if you are using POP mail and not Exchange? How would you then send
an "unavailable" response then?

Two options - firstly, your ISP may have a "vacation" function on it's
webmail - many do nowadays. Secondly, you can create a rule to send an
email. the downside of that is that your machine must be on with Outlook
running 24/7, and you would have to be very careful how you constructed the
rule to avoid sending replies to spam.

HTH