Sending a vacation notice automatically

A vacation notice informs the sender of an E-Mail that you will not retrieve your E-Mails for a specific period of time. You can set the following:

How to create and activate a vacation notice:

Click the Settings icon in the menu bar. Click on Vacation notice.
- You can also use the Vacation notice button below Rules in the email settings.
The Vacation notice window opens.
Enable the Vacation notice button .
To define the time range for sending the vacation notice, enable Send vacation notice during this time only. Set the start and end date.

Note: Depending on the configuration, this setting might not be available.
Enter a subject and a text for the vacation notice.
In order to display all options, click on Show advanced options.
- You can specify an interval for sending a vacation notice if there are several E-Mail messages from the same sender.
- You can specify the sender address to be used for sending the vacation notice.
- The vacation notice will be sent if messages are reaching your primary E-Mail address. You can also activate a vacation notice if messages are reaching your other E-Mail addresses.

The vacation notice will be entered as email filter. You can also edit the vacation notice in the email filter settings.

If a vacation notice is active, the following is displayed:

On the E-Mail settings page, the Vacation notice button is marked with an additional icon.
In the E-Mail app, a notification will be displayed above the list view. If clicking on the notification, the Vacation notice window opens.

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