Out of Office and Junk Filtering

[Andy Siegel]

Will an out of office message go out to senders who send me junk? If the
junk filtering recognizes it as junk, I don't want to validate the address by
sending them a message. I'd like to think it only goes out to messages that
make it to the inbox, is this correct? Where might I find some documentation
on this issue?

Thank you,

Andy Siegel
City of Dover
Dover, DE

 

[KarelG]

OOO is an exchange feature, where the junk filtering takes places on your
machine. In other words, the filter only fires after OOO did its work
already and the filter comes too late.
Although my OOO is usually on, I hardly have spam problems because:
- my identity is protected on news forums like this. The reply address you
will find in my message is complete fake. I think yours is working (look in
the properties of the message).
- my name is an alias, and I am not from the City of Dover like Mr. Andy
Siegel.
- my e-mail address is not mentioned on my website, but explained how it
looks like.
- subscriptions to newsletters and orders over internet are sent to an -mail
alias that is not going through the exchange server.