Out-of-Office Assistant with non-outlook users

[BabaFree]

Does the Out of Office reply in Outlook 2007 only reply to other outlook users on our exchange server?

I thought that it would reply to anyone whether they used outlook or gmail or whatever, but now I think I'm wrong.

Thanks for the help,
Brandon

 

[58sniper]

It will reply to anyone inside your environment by default. If you enable Out of Office replies to the Internet, it will reply to external emails as well.

Keep in mind that enabling OOF to the Internet is generally not recommended for several reasons, not the least of which is an increase in spam.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference

 

[eyec]

your network admin normally blocks sending to non-exchange email servers

 

[58sniper]

your network admin normally blocks sending to non-exchange email servers

That makes no sense.

Exchange has no way of knowing whether remote servers are going to be Exchange or not. Additionally, it has no way of knowing if the receiving user is using Outlook or not.

It's enabled internally, and can be enabled/disabled externally.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference

 

[eyec]

let me clarify my previous post;

our network admins would block OOA responses to any email address from AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and others.

they also could block/filter sending CCs of any emails to those same email accounts.

i assumed that the original posting was having problems with a gmail account not receiving the OOA reply so that is why i said what i said.

 

[58sniper]

OOF is either enabled to the Internet or not. There is no filtering based on what remote domain is involved.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference