What is a Vacation Message?
It’s a way to send an automatic reply to people who send you email. If you’re going on a holiday or travelling to a conference and will be unable to check your email frequently (or at all), a vacation message is a way to let people know that their email was delivered, but that you won’t be able to respond immediately. To create a vacation message: • Log into SmartSieve at https://www.ee.duke.edu/smartsieve using the instructions above. • Click the “Vacation Settings” link at the top of the page. • Fill in the text of your vacation message in the large text box. Be sure to include details such as your departure and return dates, and whether someone else should be contacted in your absence. For example: I will be travelling out of the country from June 6 until June 20. Please contact Jane Smith (jane.smith@duke.edu) if you have an urgent request. • Choose the number of days that the sieve script should wait before sending another vacation message to the same person.
Vacation message is a message that is automatically sent to people writing to you while you’re in vacation or not available for a period of time (you must first enable this option for vacation message to work). This message will be sent once to each person the first time they are trying to reach you and another time each week if they send a new message. This message may contain data about your away reason, your return date and/or a means to contact you during this time period or any other information you would find relevant. Please note that vacation message will not be sent if you enable email forwarding.
