Out of Office reply not working when forwarding to another user

[derricku]

I have a user who is out of the office for 6 months. I have set up an out of office autoreply for them, as well as forwarding all of their mail to another user who is standing in the gap for the time. I set up the forwarding through the Active Directory on the server.

The out of office reply says it's active, but it doesn't actually make it out to senders.

How do I make the out of office reply work?

Specs:
Exchange 2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Users are running MS Outlook 2010

 

[58sniper]

You'd need to look at a couple of things. First, is this happening only when senders are external to your org, or for any sender?

Next - what is the OOF setting on the server set to?

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[derricku]

This is for any sender, both internal and external.

OOF setting on the server is the same.