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## Setting Up Automatic Reply

If you are going on vacation and will not be able to check your mail for a while, you may want to leave a vacation notice that will be automatically sent to your correspondents once they send e-mail to your address. This is done with automatic reply facility, also referred to as autoresponder. Aside from vacation notices, organizations can use automatic replies to notify customers that their orders or technical support requests were received and will soon be processed. Automatic replies can include pre-written messages in plain text or HTML format, and they can contain attached files as well.

To set up automatic reply for a mailbox:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Mail.
3. Click the e-mail address, for which you wish to set up an automatic reply.
4. Click Autoresponders in the Tools group.
5. If you are not going to attach any files to the automatic reply, proceed to the step 6. To attach a file to the automatic reply:
   1. Click Attachment Files in the Tools group.
   2. Click Browse to locate the file, and once selected, click Send File.

      The file will be added to the attachment files storage, and you will be able to attach this file to a number of different automatic replies.

   3. Once finished, click Up Level and proceed to the next step.
6. Click Add New Autoresponder in the Tools group.
7. Configure the automatic reply:
   1. Type a name for this automatic reply into the Autoresponder name box.

      For example, Vacation notice.

   2. If you want this automatic reply to be sent in reply to any incoming e-mail message, in the Request group, leave the always respond option selected. If you wish to automatically reply only to e-mail messages that contain specific words in the message text or subject line, select the appropriate option, and type the word combination in the Request text input box.
   3. By default, the subject line of incoming e-mail will be inserted into the automated reply. To use a custom subject, type it into the Answer with subject subject input box.
   4. As your correspondents may not figure out that the message they received from you was an automatic response, they may want to respond to your auto-reply. So, you should specify your e-mail address as the Return address, otherwise, their messages will be directed at the autoresponder's address.
   5. Type your message in the Reply with text field.
   6. To limit the number of automated responses per day to the same e-mail address, enter the desired number in the Reply to unique e-mail address not more than input box under Limits.

      The default setting is to respond no more than ten times in one day to the same e-mail address.

   7. To reduce mail server load, you may want to limit the number of unique addresses that the autoresponder will remember. To do this, enter the desired number into the Store up to box.
   8. If you want your incoming mail to be forwarded to another e-mail address while you are away, specify an e-mail address in the Forward request to e-mail box.
   9. Attach your files, if needed. To do this, click the Add New Attachment button, select the check box corresponding to the file that you previously uploaded to the attachment storage, and click OK. To remove an attached file from the automatic reply, select the corresponding checkbox, and click Remove Selected.
8. Click OK.
9. Click Switch On in the Tools group.