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Exchange 2010 Prevent mailbox from receiving mail, but allow AutoReply

In Exchange 2010, we have a user who will be out of office for several months.  How can we prevent that users account form receiving mail, but still send out an auto-reply to the senders?
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Hi Ibrahim, Transport rule is limited in what you can add in the rejection message, you are pretty much limited to a one line response. (I'm assuming you are talking about "send rejection message with enhanced status code"?)

Reason being is that the user will reach the limit within days due to the attachments received, this was actually a request from the department manager.
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You can set mailbox's maxreceivesize parameter to 1KB, so that his mailbox wont receive any emails.
Set-Mailbox "user mailbox" -maxreceivesize 1KB

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Hi Dinesh, Unfortunately setting the max receive size to 1K will only generate a bounce back stating that the email was not accepted by the recipient due to max message size limitations.  The autoreply is not sent out.
Set mailtip to the mailbox along with maxreceivesize restrictions.
Set-mailbox "user mailbox" -mailtip "I m on vacation"
So while composing itself sender aware about users oof.
But mailtip will work only for internal

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Hi Dinesh, This should be for both, internal and external senders.
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Hi suriyaehnop,  correct that it is not simple txt, but not rich enough for an autoreply.  It seems as if there is really no backend solution.  Creating a client side rule might be the only option at this point.

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Thanks everyone, i just had to go with creating a client side rule.  I gave Suriyeahnop some points for the assist.