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We are running Exchange 2007 with a mix of Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. Is it possible to set the Out of Office Assistant so that when OoO is enabled, it sends a reply to every single email the user receives? Also, is there something I can reference that covers the options for OoO such as length of time between replies, etc.?

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I did some work for a very large company which found they had to live within the one reply limit. Since it could have effected their customers, I suspect they couldn't figure out a way around it. I know one reason for the limit. X sends an e-mail to y just before leaving on vacation and turning on his OoO. Y is already on vacation. The two mailboxes send each other OoO messages until the server crashes. – Jordan 1GT Mar 22 '10 at 23:10
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As far as I know, this is not possible, and there are a number of good reasons for this. For a start people can get very annoyed getting multiple out of office reply's, secondly, what if the users is subscribed to a newsletter or mailing list, they will reply to the newsletter with an out of office, the newsletter mailbox will then often reply with a "don't send mail here, no one reads it" notice, which will be replied to etc until your mail server is using all it's memory to play OoO tennis.

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