Exchange 2003: does not send Out of Office replies to non-organisation

[hamish]

Hello

I have a problem with my Exchange 2003. It won't send out of office auto-replies to emails who are not in the organisation. In the Internet Message Formats, I have enabled the Allow Out of Office Responses.

It currently works with people on the domain, but it will not work with other email accounts.

One reason that it might be is this. At the moment, each Outlook is set up to get the POP3 emails from a different server. Outlook then saves the emails in the users Exchange Mailbox (Mailbox - Username). Would this cause the current out of office replies not to work, because Exchange doesn't know that the email has arrived (Outlook reads the email first, and puts it in the Mailbox - Username, instead of Echange getting it first).

Kind regards

Hamish

[hamish]

Hey

I have fixed it. It is due to my current setup. In order for it to work properly, you need to use Exchange to download your emails via a POP3 connector.

I have another question: how could I set up exchange to use my Broadband providor's SMTP server, instead of using the Exhcnage server itself? Is it something to do with the "Default SMTP Virtual Server"?

Thanks

Hamish