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Send an automatic reply while you are away

Turn on an out-of-office reply in webmail, choose the days it runs, and turn it off from your inbox when you are back.

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While an automatic reply is on, the mailbox answers each person who writes to it with a message you set, such as the day you are back. You set it on the Out of office tab of webmail settings, at www.coritan.com/webmail/settings/vacation for the mailbox on screen. The mail server sends the reply, so it goes out with webmail closed.

  • Open the mailbox in webmail as someone who manages it: its owner, or, for a mailbox that no Coritan account owns, someone who can send from it. Nobody else sees the tab (Who sees each tab).
  • Know the days you are away, if the reply should start or stop on its own.
  1. Go to Settings, then the Out of office tab.
  2. Turn on Send an automatic reply.
  3. Enter a Subject and a Message, such as I am away until 14 October and will reply when I am back.
  4. To start or stop the reply on its own, choose a First day, a Last day, or both.
  5. Select Save.

We show The automatic reply is on. When the first day is still to come, we show The automatic reply starts on followed by that day.

The days run from the start of the first day to the end of the last day, in UTC. Without a first day, the reply starts at once. Without a last day, it goes on until you turn it off.

While the reply answers mail, a bar above your conversations says Your automatic reply is on until followed by the last day, or Your automatic reply is on. when it has none. Its Settings button opens the Out of office tab.

  • In the bar above your conversations, select Turn off.
  • Or, on the Out of office tab, turn off Send an automatic reply and select Save.

We show The automatic reply is off. The subject, message and days stay on the tab, so next time you only turn it back on.

After its last day, the reply stops on its own and the bar goes away. The switch on the tab stays on until you turn it off.

There is no Out of office tab
Only whoever manages the mailbox sees it. For a mailbox shared with you, ask its owner to set the reply.
The last day is before the first.
Choose a Last day on or after the First day.
Automatic replies are not available for this mailbox.
The mail server that holds this mailbox cannot send automatic replies for it at the moment. Reload the page later. If it stays, contact support.
A message that starts Could not save the automatic reply
The mail server did not take the change, and the message says why. Try again in a moment.
The reply started or stopped a few hours from midnight
The days count in UTC. For a reply that must start before you leave, choose a first day one day earlier.