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Hi all,

> What's the current vogue for using OoO assistants in Outlook (2003)?

Danger Will Robinson..... we've been blacklisted by SpamCop because of 
out-of-office messages...

http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html

Quick summary: they have secret honeypot addresses.  If you send mail to a 
honeypot, you must have brute-forced guessed it, therefore you must be a spammer.

Real spammers figure out honeypot addresses and put them as fake source or 
reply-to addresses in spam.  Out of office responder replies to honeypot 
address.  Whole office gets blacklisted.

It's happened to us at least twice in the last year...  I've forbidden 
auto-responders as a result, and still have to explain everytime someone goes 
on holiday.

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Cheers,

Mike

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