Config for Out of Office in Outlook

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:42 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Config for Out of Office in Outlook
> 
> Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> No, you want it set in Exchange System Manager.  I forget where and
> >> am just leaving (all the fun I can handle for the day!), but google
> >> for it. If you can't find it holler and I'll dig deeper tomorrow.
> >>
> >> Somewhere in System manager is where you can set up a number of
> >> things that outta be changed, such as turn off RTF format to the
> >> internet, turn off Out of Office notifications to the internet,
etc.
> >>
> >> I can set my Out of Office in Outlook, and it works fine
internally,
> >> but they never leave our system.  But it's a server side setting
> >> because you don't want to rely on your users to remember (or have
to
> >> even agree) to turn it off in the client...
> >>
> >> ...Kevin
> >> --
> >> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
> >> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
> >> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
> >> Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
> >> --
> >
> > Looks like it might be this:
> > 1. In system manager, go to Global Settings
> > 2. Right click on Internet message Formats, click on properties
> > 3. Go to the Advanced tab
> >
> > There you will see check marks for "Allow out of office responses"
> >
> > Is that the correct setting?
> 
> Yup, thanks Billy.  Although I had trouble getting there following
steps
> 1-3.  I'm probably still waiting for the morning's coffee to kick in.
> <g>  For me, it was:
> 1. In system manager, go to Global Settings
> 2. Left click on Internet message Formats, in the right hand pane
select
> the Internet Message Format that talks to the internet.  I have
several
> 'formats' as I talk to other Exchange servers, but my default format
> talks to the internet (via my MailScanner gateways) so that's the one
I
> operate on.  Either double click it, or right click and go to
> properties.
> 3. Go to the Advanced tab
> 4. Select Never Use in the Exchange Rich Text Format area.  I'm
> persuaded that RTF sucks.  YMMV.  Season to taste.
> 5. Uncheck Allow Out of Office Responses.
> 
> You're done.  Well, mostly.  You might also want to check out these
> pages:
>
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_spam:spamass
> assin:sa-learn:msexchange (I haven't done this yet but probably will
> soon.)
> http://www.fsl.com/support/Milter-Ahead-Exchange-Settings.pdf This
> references milter-ahead, but I'm using smf-sav.  Nonetheless, the
> concept is the same and running either milter is a righteous thing to
> do...
> 
> 
> ...Kevin
> --
> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
> Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
> --

That was me.  I should have re-read it, I left out a click or two.  So
the out of office check box will still allow internal out of office auto
replies?