Outlook 2007 - Out of Office Exception
Good day everyone. We currently have Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2007 (SP2). One of my users is trying to set up and exception for the Out of Office reply. We set up a rule to not send to a specific email address. We also checked "Do not process subsequent rules" as well as "Only items that do not match these conditions" in the Advanced section.
We tested it out and it still sends out the reply to the email address. Any ideas?
We tested it out and it still sends out the reply to the email address. Any ideas?
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Gary Coltharp
Did you click "Check Name"? I have seen the OOO rules not work unless the emails you are checking have been resolved to a contact.
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The email that is the exception is not a domain email account. It is a Yahoo email account. Does it matter?
Nope, as long as it is in the user's contacts
UNless Im mistaken...
Out of Office is an Exchange Side Setting
This means when On, Out of Office replys will be sent regardless of weather or not outlook on the Users PC is open or not.
Once you add any rules or excetions a Client Side Rule is created
For these to run, The Client PC will need to be ON, and the users Outlook Profile will need to be Open
Out of Office is an Exchange Side Setting
This means when On, Out of Office replys will be sent regardless of weather or not outlook on the Users PC is open or not.
Once you add any rules or excetions a Client Side Rule is created
For these to run, The Client PC will need to be ON, and the users Outlook Profile will need to be Open
Unless something goes wrong, the rules should sync with the exchange server making them server side so that way they work in OWA as well.
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Setting a rule for the reply and not using the Out of Office Assistant works. The only thing I notice is that it sends replies multiple times to the same email address since it doesn't keep track of who it has sent to as is the case with OOA. Is there any way to adjust this?
Sorry for the delay, unfortunately I cannot think of a way around this. The only clues I have is in the Rules Wizard, create a custom action or run a script that may limit the reply count. But that's just a wild guess.