RE: [OT] Outlook/exchange out of office replacement?

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nope, no wildcards - the distribution list contains actual contacts,
so it's
not as flexible as it might be.

I can't remember off the top of my head - I think things like moving
messages to public folders, actions based on what account they were
downloaded from and so on...

I basically use a copy of outlook on the server to allow email redundancy -

My primary MX on the various domains is pointed at the Exchange server
directly, but the secondary MX points at my hosters, where I have a
"catchall bucket" email address which accepts anything sent to
the domain (I
have spam assassing running here, so the backup MX doesn't become a
spamtrap).

I then use outlook to download from these "catch all" bucket
accounts, and
distribute the email accordingly. (outlook is logged in as administrator,
and opens up each of our mailboxes as "open an additional
mailbox"

My mail sytem is now pretty slick, actually - on each of the machines I
use,
I have a bunch of email accounts set up (lots of POP3 accounts), one for
each email address, but they are all added into a "send only"
send/receive
group, and don't collect mail - it's all delivered via Exchange (or the
outlook running on the server)

When you reply, outlook is smart enough to use the "right" email
account to
send with. It works very well indeed.

When you send a new email, you simply drop the selection box and choose
which account you are sending as, and that's it.

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups2@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 July 2007 15:32
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Outlook/exchange out of office replacement?

Ah OK thanks.

Do you know if you can use wildcards in the dist list i.e. *@abc.com  ?

I'm running 2007. What kind of extra rules do you get on Outlook vs server
rules processing?

Thanks,

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ian Lowe
> Sent: 27 July 2007 14:52
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Outlook/exchange out of office replacement?
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> I have a copy of Outlook running on my server console just to provide
> the extra rules that the full fat outlook client has over just
> exchange processing - what you are after can be done in Outlook 2007
> (and I think
> 2003 as well).
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> Don't add an "auto respond with this text" entry, but click
on the
> "Add Rule" button in OOO Assistant,
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> Create an OOO rule from "From", and pick a distribution list
from your
> contacts folder (stick everyone you trust to see your out of office
> message in this list)
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> As the action, choose "reply with template" and put your
normal out of
> office message in that template
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> That's it  - if the rule matches, an OOO message is sent, if not, no
> response.
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> Ian.
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> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups2@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 July 2007 13:50
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Outlook/exchange out of office replacement?
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> Anyone know of or use a replacement for the Exchange/Outlook out of
> office responder?
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> In these days of spam, sending a response to a spam message isn't a
> good idea - was wondering if there's a way of tailoring an OOO to only
> reply to known contacts (maybe generated from sent emails)?
>
> Paul.
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