Auto Reply Address in Exchange for Testing
We wish to have an auto-reply email address configured on our Exchange server. The purpose of this is to monitor Exchange availability. We would send an email to this address on a regular basis, and confirm availability by the reply.
I understand that the out-of-office feature is available, however it will only reply to each address once. We want this as a permanent solution for replying. Does anyone know how this can be done? Either by a different method than out-of-office or else modifying out-of-office to reply constantly to the same address...
I understand that the out-of-office feature is available, however it will only reply to each address once. We want this as a permanent solution for replying. Does anyone know how this can be done? Either by a different method than out-of-office or else modifying out-of-office to reply constantly to the same address...
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Thanks for the info. I will try it out and let you know
The problem with auto reply is that it is enabled at an Org level. That means all of your users can then set an auto reply on their mailbox. That means it is only a matter of when, not if, you get an email loop.
Simon.
Simon.
You could setup a server side Outlook rule on the mailbox you will be sending to that autoreplies to the message you send. You will also need to allow auto replies to the Internet.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266166