Regardless of which web mail you use (or even if you don't use web mail at all), you can set an auto response message when you are on vacation or away from your email.
This message will be sent to everyone who sends you email except spam or email list mail. Additionally, it only responds to each person once per week.
- Log into the Members Control Panel
- If you login with a username that has admin privileges - you will see all records in your account. You will have to click the "Mailbox" tab, and find your mailbox and edit it.
- On the other hand, if you do not have admin privileges, you will see a page with your settings, which includes fields for the Auto responder.
In either case, your screen will look something like this:
- In the "Auto Responder Action" drop down menu, select "Respond and deliver messages." Only select "Respond but do not deliver" if you don't want to ever receive the messages sent to you while your auto responder is set, which is uncommon!
- In the "Auto Responder Message" field, write the message that you want people to receive as your auto response.
- In the "Auto Responder Reply From Address" field, enter your email address. This step is important because if you do not fill it out your autoresponse message will appear to come from yourusername@server.mayfirst.org rather than your actual email address.
- Click the "Submit" button.
To remove your auto-responder, select "Do not send auto response" from the "Auto Responder Action" in the "Auto Responder Action" menu.