Out of office assistant - can it email only in my company 2

[AndyH1]

When I'm out of the office on Annual Leave etc I put on the 'Out of the office assistant' in Outlook 2003 to reply to emails. The problem is we are recieving loads of junk emails and the assistant replies to these giving my email address to all and sundry (so notifying them I exist). Is there any way to set the Out the office assistant to only reply to emails originating from my companies address ie xxx@companyname.com. Or is there some other thing (plugin) I can get to do this.

Thanks in advance
Anndy

 

[paulha]

Do you run your own email server ?

 

[AndyH1]

We run our own server (an Exchange one I think), but I don't think we can set this. Need just an option I (and a number of others) can set personally in our outlook.
Thanks
Andy

 

[paulha]

I dont know any way of doing it from outlook, it is a server side issue normally as far as I am aware.

Config on server :
System Manager
Internet Message Format
Default
Properties
Advanced.
Un-check as necessary.

Might be worth having a word with the person in charge of your mail server, in this day and age you should not be getting too much spam directly to you inbox

 

[jhaith]

There's a few different things you could do.

1. Depending on if you are on Exchange or not, there's a setting to not allow out of office auto replies out to the intranet, which imo shouldn't be allowed anyways.
2.You could use the rules wizard to setup an out of office auto reply w/ a script, but may require additional setting changes.
3. Depending on how many people are in your orginzation, have the out of office recipient only reply to those people you select in a rule, kind of a pain to add everyone this way especially if it changes often.

-jhaith

 

[AndyH1]

Thanks to both of you for your help
Andy

 

[58sniper]

jhaith mentioned there is a setting in Exchange to disable OOF to the Internet. In 2003, it's disabled by default, and for good reason.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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