If you are using either our webmail service or Outlook to connect to your mailbox via IMAP, when you want to setup an Out of Office / Autoresponder this will need to be done on the server; To create an Autoresponder, perform the following steps:
As a cPanel/Webmail user
- Login to your Webmail interface at example.com/webmail or example.com:2082 (switch example.com for your actual domain name)
- From the user@example.com menu at the top right corner of the interface, select Autoresponders.
- Click Add Autoresponder.
- Choose the character set in which to send the email from the options in the Character Set text box. (As a default use "utf-8")
- Enter the interval, in hours, for the autoresponder to wait between responses to the same email address.
- Enter your name in the From text box.
- Enter the message's subject in the Subject text box.
- If you wish for the email to display HTML code, select the HTML checkbox.
- Provide a body for your message, for example:
I am out of the office until July 2nd. You can reach me on my cell phone in case of emergencies.
- Select a start time.
- Select a stop time.
- Click Create/Modify to save the autoresponder.
As a cPanel/Webmail Administrator
- Login to your account and navigate to Services => My Services and select your domain from the list
- Now that you are managing the package, scrolling to the bottom of this page you will see a quicklink to open the Autoresponder interface in cPanel
- Click Add Autoresponder.
- Choose the character set in which to send the email from the options in the Character Set text box. (As a default use "utf-8")
- Enter the interval, in hours, for the autoresponder to wait between responses to the same email address.
- Enter the email address you would like the autoresponder / Out of Office set.
- Enter your name in the From text box.
- Enter the message's subject in the Subject text box.
- If you wish for the email to display HTML code, select the HTML checkbox.
- Provide a body for your message, for example:
I am out of the office until July 2nd. You can reach me on my cell phone in case of emergencies.
- Select a start time.
- Select a stop time.
- Click Create to save the autoresponder.