Vacation Messages
The Med School's e-mail system allows you to set your account to send automatic replies to any e-mail you receive. This is most often used when a person is out of the office or on vacation. This feature is handled by the e-mail server, so it doesn't matter what program you use for an e-mail client (webmail, Thunderbird, Outlook,...)
Please note, the system keeps track of which addresses it's sent vacation messages to, and by default only sends one-per-week. So for example, if while you're away one particular person sent you ten messages in the space of a few days - they'd only receive an out-of-office reply from you for the first message.
Click on Filters
Once logged in, click on "Filters" on the left sidebar, under the "Mail" entry.
Select Vacation Rule
Click on the "Vacation" rule.
Edit Vacation Settings
Select the range of dates your vacation message should be active, and the subject and body of the message that will be sent out. Hit "Save and Enable" when finished.
Success
Look for "Changes saved", "Rule Enabled" and "Script successfully activated". If you see all those, you can click the "Log out" link to finish.
Disable Vacation rule
To manually disable your vacation rule, log back in, navigate to the "Filters" page, and click on the Green checkmark on the line listing the Vacation rule.
Disabling successful
You should see messages saying "Rule Disabled" and "Script successfully activated". The vacation line will now say "disabled" and have a red "X" . Log out when you're finished.
Hint
If you have a Spam Filter rule enabled, make sure it comes before the Vacation rule - that way you're not automatically replying to all the spam you receive - which would probably just get you more spam. Use the up and down arrows to change the rule order.
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