Out-of-Office Alert should not respond to alias emails

[Steve Mol (Centernet)]

In addition to my personal email address, I also receive emails to
"webmaster@...", "sales@...", "info@...", and "adminstrator@...". As
spammers often send emails to those generic addresses, I get that spam.
Unfortunately, the Out-Of-Office Alert is sent to emails arriving from those
generic addresses despite any rules I set up. Within that Out-Of-Office
Alert, the spammer gets my primary email address as well - and then the spam
REALLY starts!

As Out-Of-Office Alerts are a feature of the Exchange mailbox, and as the
Exchange User knows which email address is "primary" - as does Outlook (as
the "reply to" address), it should not be too difficult to skip sending
Out-Of-Office Alerts to emails sent to any email address other than the
"primary" one.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Sorry, but your Exchange Admin is to blame for this problem. Exchange, by
default settings, denies replies and forwards to the Internet (including Out
of Office responses). It must be deliberately turned on - a sign of a
poorly trained Exchange Admin who is just ripe for a mail loop crashing the
company's Exchange Server.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Steve Mol (Centernet) asked:

| In addition to my personal email address, I also receive emails to
| "webmaster@...", "sales@...", "info@...", and "adminstrator@...". As
| spammers often send emails to those generic addresses, I get that
| spam. Unfortunately, the Out-Of-Office Alert is sent to emails
| arriving from those generic addresses despite any rules I set up.
| Within that Out-Of-Office Alert, the spammer gets my primary email
| address as well - and then the spam REALLY starts!
|
| As Out-Of-Office Alerts are a feature of the Exchange mailbox, and as
| the Exchange User knows which email address is "primary" - as does
| Outlook (as the "reply to" address), it should not be too difficult
| to skip sending Out-Of-Office Alerts to emails sent to any email
| address other than the "primary" one.
|
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[Steve Mol (Centernet)]

Milly-

1) I <am> the Exchange Admin. Any poor training is the fault of poor
documentation.

2) The settings you spoke of <are> disabled.

3) The whole point of "Out-Of-Office Alerts" is to inform someone when I
am, in fact, out of the office. If someone sends an email to my private
(primary) email address, I <want> them to get an Out Of Office Alert so they
know why I am not responding.

I just don't want Out-Of-Office alerts to go to <non-primary> email
addresses also listed under my User name. Exchange/Outlook should know the
difference.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

And how would Outlook/Exchange "know" the difference?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Steve Mol (Centernet) asked:

| Milly-
|
| 1) I <am> the Exchange Admin. Any poor training is the fault of poor
| documentation.
|
| 2) The settings you spoke of <are> disabled.
|
| 3) The whole point of "Out-Of-Office Alerts" is to inform someone
| when I am, in fact, out of the office. If someone sends an email to
| my private (primary) email address, I <want> them to get an Out Of
| Office Alert so they know why I am not responding.
|
| I just don't want Out-Of-Office alerts to go to <non-primary> email
| addresses also listed under my User name. Exchange/Outlook should
| know the difference.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Sorry, but your Exchange Admin is to blame for this problem.
|| Exchange, by default settings, denies replies and forwards to the
|| Internet (including Out of Office responses). It must be
|| deliberately turned on - a sign of a poorly trained Exchange Admin
|| who is just ripe for a mail loop crashing the company's Exchange
|| Server.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Steve Mol (Centernet) asked:
||
||| In addition to my personal email address, I also receive emails to
||| "webmaster@...", "sales@...", "info@...", and "adminstrator@...".
||| As spammers often send emails to those generic addresses, I get that
||| spam. Unfortunately, the Out-Of-Office Alert is sent to emails
||| arriving from those generic addresses despite any rules I set up.
||| Within that Out-Of-Office Alert, the spammer gets my primary email
||| address as well - and then the spam REALLY starts!
|||
||| As Out-Of-Office Alerts are a feature of the Exchange mailbox, and
||| as the Exchange User knows which email address is "primary" - as
||| does Outlook (as the "reply to" address), it should not be too
||| difficult to skip sending Out-Of-Office Alerts to emails sent to
||| any email address other than the "primary" one.
|||
||| ----------------
||| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
||| the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion,
||| click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see
||| the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
||| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|||
|||
||
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