In his article about Microsoft’s new Exchange Server feature, Mail Tips, author Paddy discusses the advantages of Mail Tips.

I agree with Paddy that this is a beneficial feature that all users within a company will appreciate. With Mail Tips, an end user – who is a sender of an email – will get helpful information before the sender sends out the email to the recipient.

Users will get informative messages about their recipient’s status while they are creating their email messages. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 can notify the sender of any potential problems with the email message or any statuses of the recipient that the sender should know about such as if the potential recipient is out on vacation. All of this occurs while the message is being created.

The benefit to the end user is that they can modify their email message if needed based on the information they receive about the recipient list – information that was not previously available to them in earlier releases – before they send the email out. This also has the added benefit of reducing those annoying non-delivery reports (NDRs) that administrators have to deal with from time to time.

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