HiI had some queries regarding message delivery settings on Exchange 2003 DL's that I was hoping someone could help me with. The settings can be found in DL > Properties > Exchange Advanced.1. There is a setting for 'Send out of office messages to originator' and also settings forSend delivery reports to group owner/Send delivery report to message originator/Do not send delivery reportsDo these two settings not conflict with each other? Or do they refer to different things?2. If the CEO sends an email to "DL-Company ALL", I know we can prevent people Reply-All to it, but is there a method to prevent people replying to it all? Or perhaps redirect those replies to another mailbox?

For 1: Here is more info:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996055.aspxhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/271419For 2:You can change the reply to within OUtlook:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP030783381033.aspxAlternatively, you could SEND AS a mailbox that other accounts do not have permission to send to.

Thanks.For #2, is there anything within Exchange we can do, or is it purely on the client side?

Yes, that is a client side thing. There is nothing out of the box in Exchange 2003 at the server level to do this.

Thanks Andy, one final question:) Regarding the Out of Offices/Delivery Reports - if we set both of them so that the originator does should *not* receive them, does this mean the originator won't recv out of offices/NDR from recipients within the Exchange org, or any recipients (within the DL) that message was sent to (e.g. hotmail addresses)?

Thanks Andy, one final question:) Regarding the Out of Offices/Delivery Reports - if we set both of them so that the originator does should *not* receive them, does this mean the originator won't recv out of offices/NDR from recipients within the Exchange org, or any recipients (within the DL) that message was sent to (e.g. hotmail addresses)? You're right, Joe. The originator won't receive them if you set it on the Exchange advanced tab.

Hi Elvis,Thanks...but does this apply to out of offices/NDR's sent from internal recipients or external recipients? I can't see how Exchange can block out of offices/NDR's from external recipients in the DL?

Hi Joe, The originator won't receive them regardless it's from internal or external. I've done a local test in my lab, in org A, send a mail to the group which contains a contact from org B, Ive disabled OOF/NDR on that group. From the message tracking log, we could see the Exchange server of Org B will not generate a NDR to Org A. You could do a similar test in your side if youre interesting in it. Thanks, Elvis

Hi ElvisThanks!I checked it out too and you are correct.Just out of interest, do you know how this work?For Delivery Reports, I see that the Return-Path: field has been set to <> when the 'do not send delivery reports' field is set...however, do you know how Exchange blocks the Out of Office replies from internal/external mailboxes? How can Exchange know the difference between an Out of Office an an actual reply sent from the client (unless it checks the Subject line)?

Hi Joe,As the new report issue you mentioned is different from the original question, we'd recommend that you start up a new thread for it. We generally focus on one topic in one thread because in this way it will be better for other community members to participate in the discussion, and to search/find specific answers more efficiently in the future. Thanks,Elvis