Out Of Office (OOF) Not working

[1sae]

I have a win2k3x64 server SP2 / Exchange 2007 fully updated, and cannot get oof to work.

First off let me say that it did work temporarily, but one day just stopped in during one persons absence. The user goes in and creates their message with no errors (via OWA or Outlook 07). But on a test message, I get no response. On login to OWA, I get the message that OOF is on and do I want to turn it off?

Remote Domains OOF properties are set to allow external & 2003, but I've tired all of them.

Verified it with Shell:

Name DomainName AllowedOOFType
---- ---------- --------------
Default * ExternalLegacy

I don't see any errors in the event viewer, and I've searched all over this site and google with no ideas on what the problem is.

 

[cmeagan656]

Also, it only works on the first message sent after that it doesn't work anymore.

The first message sent from the same sender or the first message sent? If the first message sent from the same sender then that is by design.

Hope this helps.

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[1sae]

So after I tracked it down to the smarthost as the problem, I got another provider, and it doesn't work with them either. Apparently oof messages reply-to address is <> to avoid loops and that causes the providers to block it as spam.

Now I got to find a provider that allows me to whitelist anything I send after I authenticate.

 

[markdmac]

Why don't you eliminate the provider and just change your MX record to your public IP?

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Mark

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[1sae]

The problem is that I have AT&T uverse and their static ip plan doesn't work as expected (you still have to keep computers as dhcp) so it won't work for my setup. So with their dynamic IP plan (which oddly the IP hasn't changed on me for 6 months) they don't offer reverse dns records which causes some mail providers to reject my messages.

 

[markdmac]

I'd look at different providers for IP, static is static, if they can't get that to work you have bigger problems.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Mark

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[1sae]

Oh Mark...God how I wish I could change. AT&T is awful and I hate how they do everything backwards, but unfortunately they're my only choice due to our location.

The uverse product is actually pretty great, but they dumbed it down so much for consumers, that it limits what i.t. professionals can do. The IAD cannot go into bridge mode, and you have to use the modem(routers) dhcp so I'm currently using a router behind a router method and it's working except for this one smarthost issue.