Gee... David

The Out-of-Office feature is one that frustrates some users and delights others. In my own opinion I have never 'liked' but accepted the behavior that delayed notification of status until the agent in my mail file did it's work. Now, with Domino 8, I am happy with a recent alternative that many admins have overlookded of which many users are ignorant.

The 'new' service is router based and runs ad hoc. That is to say that when a correspondent sends a message to a user whose status is out-of-office a notice of that status is immediately returned to the sender.

Besides the benefits that this behavior represents it also simplifies administration. No additional security permissions need be made. No longer do users need to remember to disable their out-of-office agent and, in addition to the familiar features, users can specify a time of day to begin and end their out-of-office status.

How do you configure this feature? On the server configuration document (not the same as 'the server document' access the Router/SMTP tab > Advanced tab > Control tab and modify the Out-of-Office type field. No server or router restart is required.

Voila, je suis fini!