Re: [exim] Out of office solutions

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Andy Smith <a.smith@???> wrote:

> thanks for the responces, the squirrelmail option sounds really interesting and ill look into this further.
> All in all tho, everyone is very negative/cautious regarding the idea in principal. A huge proportion of the
> corporate world using M$ Exchange server with this feature as standard, including some of my previous
> places of work, and I have run into any big probs on that platform. How come we are expecting to see
> so many issues with Exim and OoO?? The main problem being there is an expectancy from user that
> this functionality should exist, saying its too problematic doesnt really wash... :S

Andy,

It's not an Exim issue - the problem is that any spam that gets
through to that account will get an automatically generated message
sent back to it, which is a form of backscatter and a real nuisance if
your domain is being forged by spammers.

John