Vacation Message

IGB email server can send out a vacation message for you when you are out of the office.

Login

• Only Approved Users are allowed to login to the IGB Mail Server
• Go to http://mail.igb.illinois.edu and click Roundcube Enter Button.
• Login with your netID and your IGB password.
• If you do not know your IGB password, you can reset it by going to https://illinoisauth.igb.illinois.edu/password

Enable Vacation Message

• Click on Settings in right side of the screen.
• Click on Out Of Office
• The Out Of Office Settings Window should open up in the right pane.
• Please enter the following information
  • Subject: Enter a subject of the vacation message.
  • Body: Enter a vacation message to send.
  • Start Time: Select Start Date and Specify a Start Time
  • End Time: Select End Date and Specify an End Time
  • Status: On
  • Reply sender address: netID@illinois.edu - Replace netID with your netID
  • My e-mail addresses: netid@illinois.edu, netid@uiuc.edu, netid@igb.illinois.edu, netid@igb.uiuc.edu. Replace netID with your netID. Without this, email sent to your @illinois.edu or @uiuc.edu will not be processed by the vacation message script. By default the vacation message will only process emails sent to netID@igb.illlinois.edu and netID@igb.uiuc.edu.
  • Reply Interval: 1 day
  • Put the out-of-office rule after: --- This makes it the very first rule in your list of filters
  • Incoming message action - Keep
• You can use the ${subject} variable. At each location the ${subject} is at, the original subject of the email message will be inserted. You can place this in the subject or message field.
• Click Save. The vacation filter should now appear in your list of filters.

Disable Vacation Message

• Click on Settings in right side of the screen.
• Click on Out Of Office
• Set Status to Off
• Click Save