Slow Out of Office replies
by Volker Weber
Just received an Out of Office more than five hours after sending the original mail. From a Domino 8.0.1 server. I thought this was fixed with ND8?
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Probably still an old mail file template.
Yep...it's an old mail template. With the ND8 mail template, the agent is no longer used (unless the admin makes it so) and instead the OOO service is built directly into the router, allowing instantaneous delivery of the Out of Office message.
Thanks, Sascha and Chris. I will have to have a word with the gentleman. :-) I find it very hard to believe he still has an old template.
Domino is working as defined. Admins need to configure the service type. Reading manual and all that. Saying it was "fixed" implies that it was broken! OoO running every 6 hours isn't broken, unless there's something you've not mentioned.
No, OoO was working as designed. The design was broken.
I remember debates several years ago among admins about whether the OoO functionality should ever be rewritten to be more real-time. The people who like it the old way (several hour delay) were worried about the load on the server. I was not one of those people. heh.
Speaking of which, I wonder if the admin at your friend's site has chosen to not allow the real-time OoO.
(Paul raises hand).
Twas me - The server Warren and I use is the server we care about least! OOO as a service is an option in ND8, and has to be enabled in the config document on the server. I teach this in my ND8 admin presentations... do as I say....
Makes me laugh with the load argument though with the old agent. I used to hate watching the domino server being hammered running amgr processes every time the OOO kicked in. Service is more balanced usage of the resources.
That should be the end of this discussion. Everyone: go and change this setting. OoO messages hours later are so 90s. They make Notes look dumb.
OoO messages hours later are so 90s. They make Notes look dumb
they cause collateral spam.
Everyone: go and change this setting.
This required a Lotus Notes 8 Mailfile... But a Lotus Notes 8 Mailfile doesn´t run so god with a Lotus Notes 7 Client. So, you need to update the Lotus Notes Clients at first. And it took some time to catch all the "homeworkers" (also with smartupgrade) :-).
@Bastian: it is not required to have all users on a Notes 8 mailfile before you can activate the service. For those with older mail files and clients the agent will still be used.
Just all servers with mail files should be on 8.
I can top that: a bounce message after seven years.
I personally think OoO messages are 90s...who is truly out of the office these days?
Anybody who's important enough to need an OoO message has wireless email.
Everybody who's important enough to have wireless email craves for a motofone f3 :-)
