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Creating a vacation auto-reply message
Last revision June 8, 2006
There is a service on pangea called
vacation
that will automatically send a response message (that you create) to
anyone who sends email to you while you are out of town or otherwise
unable to read your email for some period of time. The incoming email
is saved for you to read and answer later, but at least your
correspondents will know why it is taking you so long!
Your automatic response message is only sent
once per week to any unique originating email address. If your
friend sends you five emails in a week, he only gets the response
to the first one. This cuts down on superfluous email traffic.
The
vacation
service on pangea only responds to email sent directly to you, not to
mailing lists. It
never
responds to any email message that has been flagged as possible spam by
pangea's spam checker.
You configure this
vacation
service for your
@pangea.stanford.edu
email address using the
pangea account maintenance web server.
A similar
vacation
service is available for your
@stanford.edu email address on the
central campus server, but it is configured from the
SUNet ID account maintenance
web page.
If you are forwarding your
@stanford.edu
email address to pangea, then
only
use the
vacation
service on pangea,
not
on both pangea and the central server, or your correspondents
may get two responses to every email they send.
Obviously, the reverse is also true: if you forward
email from your
@pangea.stanford.edu
address to the central server, only use the vacation facility on
the central server.
