Vacation Message

From Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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IGB email server can send out a vacation message for you when you are out of the office.

Login[edit]

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Enable Vacation Message[edit]

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  • 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[edit]

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