E-mail

Sending email messages

5.4.5. Sending a vacation notice

A vacation notice informs the sender of an email that you do not have access to your email messages for a specific period of time. You can set the following:

  • the subject and text of the vacation notice

  • the time period when the vacation notice is to be sent

How to create and activate a vacation notice:

  1. Click the System menu icon on the right side of the menu bar. Click the Settings menu item.

  2. Click on Vacation notice in the side bar.

  3. Enter a subject and a text for the vacation notice.

  4. Specify an interval for sending a vacation notice if there are several email messages from the same sender.

  5. Specify a time frame when the vacation notice is to be sent. Note: Depending on your installation, this option might not be available due to various reasons. In this case, contact your administrator or host.

  6. Activate the vacation notice by enabling at least one address under Enabled for the following addresses.

Tip: In order to deactivate the vacation notice, disable the email address under Enabled for the following addresses.

Tip: The vacation notice is entered as E-Mail filter. You can also edit the vacation notice in the E-Mail filter settings.