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Are out-of-office messages a security hazard?


Serdar Yegulalp
05.11.2006
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Automatically generated out-of-office messages, like the kind created by Microsoft Outlook, have come under scrutiny as a possible security hazard.

It may seem absurd at first, but there are a number of fairly legitimate reasons why out-of-office messages might pose a hazard. (These may vary in validity depending on conditions at your workplace.)

Some organizations now administratively prohibit the use of out-of-office auto-re


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plies for the above reasons. This can be done a number of ways; the most common and easiest is usually to administratively disable auto-reply and auto-forward to the Internet (via the Internet Mail Connector). The default setting for auto-reply is disabled.

About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Power Users Newsletter.

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