Out of Office Assistant not working

[Mark Z]

I have a user in my company who set up an Out of Office reply before he left
on vacation, but the reply is not going out to anyone.

We are using Exchange 5.5 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4. The client is Outlook
2000 SR-1.

On the server side, there are no alternate recipients assigned to him. He
doesn't have any rules set up in his Rules Wizard, and he has no delegates
setup in his Outlook client, either.

Can anyone offer any help on this?

Thanks.

 

[*Vanguard*]

I have a user in my company who set up an Out of Office reply before
he left on vacation, but the reply is not going out to anyone.

We are using Exchange 5.5 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4. The client is
Outlook 2000 SR-1.

On the server side, there are no alternate recipients assigned to
him. He doesn't have any rules set up in his Rules Wizard, and he
has no delegates setup in his Outlook client, either.

Can anyone offer any help on this?

Thanks.

I'm not an Exchange admin, but have heard others remark in their replies
in these newsgroups that the default is to NOT auto-respond to e-mails
that originate outside the network. That's to prevent spammers from
sending their crap to a well-known domain and finding out which are
valid usernames (since the invalid ones get an NDR bounceback e-mail).
Is it the policy of your company to divulge e-mail names to spammers or
hackers? Do you really want your customers to know when someone is on
vacation but your company didn't bother to assigned someone else to take
over their responsibilities in the interim?

 

[Mark Z]

We only allow Out of Office replies to internal users, not external. This
is only happening to one user in my orginization, not everyone.

 

[Laura]

Hi,

I am wondering if you have found an answer to this issue -
I also have one user in our organization experiencing
this. Thanks,

Laura