Out Of Office Replies (External)

[ACraib]

I've read an Qbase article

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q262352

about how to enbale out of office replies to external users, but someone told me that there may be a potential security risk with this.

does any body know if this is true?

Thanks

Andrew

 

[Xybertron]

"Many administrators do not allow Out-of-Office auto-replies to be sent outside of the Exchange organization to prevent unauthorized people from learning when users are out of the office."

From the article...

The other option is to allow forwards to the internet. Basically this other option could allow a mail loop to occur. The above Q should be fine other than the stated message. Dan
Microsoft Exchange Support @ Microsoft

 

[lottie246]

The security risk is if your users put things like "I am on holiday" Then unscrupulous persons were using spamming techniques to see if people were away from their homes and then robbing them or small 1 person offices not a security risk in a IT kind of way. Unless you know different?