out of office scheduling

[Database Administrator]

Is anyone out there using custom scheduling for the out of office
agent? The reason I ask is that many of our users have expressed
concern with not being notified fast enough. We currently use the
default (every 6 hours). I’m looking at increasing this as much as I
can. The problem is I find conflicting information on the IBM site
regarding the subject. One place reads that the agent should be set
no more frequent then every 4 hours. Another talks about setting to
“When Mail Arrives” but warns of “possible” higher loads. We’veonly
got ~ 250 accounts on the server.
Is anyone using custom scheduling for the agent and are there problems
with it?

Thanks in Advance
Dave B.

[Database Administrator]

We have 1500 users on our mail servers and have it set to 2 hours.

I don't recall the exact problem, but there were some strange results
when it was set to "new mail". When we tested that, we were on 6.5
servers. It may be different with 7.x servers. Domino 8 provides for
instant responses because it is handled by the Router instead of Agent
Manager - but you have to have the Notes 8 mail template, and it has to
be enabled at the server.

Tim Mohrlant

dboltz wrote:
> Is anyone out there using custom scheduling for the out of office
> agent? The reason I ask is that many of our users have expressed
> concern with not being notified fast enough. We currently use the
> default (every 6 hours). I’m looking at increasing this as much as I
> can. The problem is I find conflicting information on the IBM site
> regarding the subject. One place reads that the agent should be set
> no more frequent then every 4 hours. Another talks about setting to
> “When Mail Arrives” but warns of “possible” higher loads. We’ve only
> got ~ 250 accounts on the server.
> Is anyone using custom scheduling for the agent and are there problems
> with it?
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Dave B.