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Prohibit Auto reply to the Helpdesk mailbox
Hi. We have had a problem with mail loops, because a mail was sent to a helpdesk mailbox, that replied with a case number, that triggered the users autoreply that triggered at new case number and that just went on and on and on.
Is there a way, in Exchange Online, to stop auto reply going to a specific mailboks?
In Exchange, Autoreply is being sent once during the period of Auto Reply (Foremly known as OOF). If I sent an email to someone who is OOF and i get his auto reply, I won't get his auto reply for his current OOF period if i send him a follow up email or new email etc. If you're getting AutoReply from user mailbox everytime, make sure the user mailbox isn't corrupted sending auto reply.
Thanks for reply. I found out how to make the rule that will purge any OOF that comes to the helpdesk mailbox. But if I go to my outlook, and creates an e-mail rule, that will reply to any e-mail sent to me (some users do this instead of using Out Of Office), I can not stop the loop.
Any idea on how to identify e-mails that have beeen created from an outlook rule?
- Why don't you create a trasport rule to purge auto replies based email header?
In the case you are describing, no, you simply dont know the address beforehand. You should however be able to configure a transport rule to block OOO replies sent to this particular mailbox, and avoid the automatic creation of incidents. You can find an example here: https://serverfault.com/questions/704250/office-365-disable-automatic-replies-to-spcific-addresses
