I use outlook / exchange at work. I've just experienced, again, the
irritating situation where I send an email to a colleague addressed via the
corporate Global Address List only to have the out of office notification
returned to me.

I now have to go to my sent mail box, find the mail that I sent and resend
it to the original addressee's boss for action.

It would be most useful if one of the following could happen instead of the
simple 'J Bloggs is out of the office until monday':

a) when I enter the address in the To: line and hit Ctrl+K for name
checking, if I could be notified that a recipient had their Out of Office on
then I could send to a more appropriate recipient (whilst also reducing
redundant emails bouncing around the network).
OR
b) attach the original mail to the out of office mail so that I can simply
forward the original in place rather than having to search for a mail that I
may (or may not) have saved.

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