bulldozer wrote:

I am using Outlook 2003 SP2 for inter office mail as well as outside
contacts with trusted clients. When I post an "out of office" auto
response is there anyway to prevent that from sending spammers and
phishers my contact info (MAC, IP, e-mail addresses) so that they now
have a valid target and info to spread to others like them?

By default, Exchange will not send OO messages to any outside address. If
external; addresses receive OO messages, then your Exchange admins have
purposefully changed the default setting.

If you're worried spammers and phishers will obtain your address, don't.
Such messages are rarely sent from real addresses or, if the sender address
is real, it doesn't belong to the spammer, but some innocent victim of
address hijacking. Such a person is probably getting inexplicable bounces
anyway and so won't be much more puzzled by an OO message.
--
Brian Tillman