Forward when out-of-office

[mscallisto]

Using the out of office assistant I set a rule to forward my "Corporate" mail to my "Personal Home account" mail.

The rule says: When a message that meets the following condition... the condition being "Sent to me"

Perform these actions: I checked "Forward" to my personal home account.


I set out-of-office ON and sent e-mail to myself from my corporate account.

I get my out of office message and the e-mail.
My personal account never gets the e-mail.

I've tried this with earthlink and yahoo personal home accounts with no luck.


What am I missing?

 

[goodoldfriend]

Check this microsoft article. There they go protecting us again!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q181636

You may neet to copy and past the complete url into your browser as I think the software here wraps the lines.

Hope this helps and good luck.

 

[mscallisto]

Thanks very much GoodOldFriend it works great!

Their workaround should actually have you clear BOTH checkboxes "Disable Auto replies to internet" and "Disable Out Of Office responses to the internet"

 

[goodoldfriend]

Well for security reasons, you may not want outsiders to know you or your company's staff is out of the office.

I commonly say where I am in my OOO message. What if one said they were out of town on vacation or business? Could this open their personal life up for problems? Like an unauthorized visit to their residence, or something of the sort!

We do not tell callers where staff is, so I model that behaviour with Exchange and do not allow OOO messages to go to outside addresses.