How to Setup an Auto Responder
- Ben Bush
If you will be out of the office for any extended period of time, and be unable to read your email consistently you may want to create a message letting those that contact you know you will be unable to respond during the time you are away. This type of automatic email is call an Auto Responder, and it can be setup to any email account, for any amount of time. Here is how you can create one of your own:
Login to your cPanel account.
Once you are in cPanel's home page, located the 'Mail' section towards the top, then select the Autoresponders icon.
Once inside the 'Autoresponders' section, you will see a button to create the Auto Responder labeled 'Add Auto Responder.'
From here is a form you need to fill out, which will then generate the auto responder:
The Interval refers to the amount of hours in between your auto responder sending emails to the same account. In the example above I have it set to send one Auto Response every 4 hours if the same email account sends emails to me.
Enter the email address that you want the Auto Responder to be setup for.
List the name of the company/individual this email is from.
List the Subject of the email.
Provide the body of your message.
Choose when to have the Auto Responder start being active. It can be immediately, or you can select a custom start date.
Choose when to have the Auto Responder stop being active. It can be never, or you can select a custom end date.
Once the form has been completed, select the 'Create/Modify' button to save the Auto Responder and have that setup!